89: Ancient Kefir Cheese

Explore the ancient world of dairy fermentation. This week’s guest is Danielle Shelton, a historian of ancient and medieval textiles and fashion and we talk about the recent analysis of 3,600 year old kefir cheese found around the necks of mummies. Show notes: Archaeology: Ancient cheese found with mummies : Nature : Nature Publishing Group [The World’s Oldest Cheese Fermdamentals]( [Cheese Chunks Adorn Ancient Mummies Chinese Academy Of Sciences]( [Fermdamentals The Fundamentals of Fermentation]( Fermdamentals on Facebook Rate us on iTunes . Thanks for your support! Send your feedback to podcast@fermup.com or connect with us on Twitter , Facebook or Google+ .

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89: Ancient Kefir Cheese is an episode from FermUp - The Fermented Food Podcast.

This episode is 31:13 long.

This episode was published on Nov 7, 2014.

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