Culinary Historians NY: 9,000 Years of Cheese, May 31

Culinary Historians of New York
in partnership with Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
present

9,000 Years of Cheese: Fermenting Religion, Climate Change, and the Environment
with
Paul Kindstedt

Thursday, May 31, 2012
Mt. Vernon Hotel Museum and Garden
417 East 61st Street, New York, NY 10065

Check-in and Reception 6:30 PM | Lecture 7:00 PM

Weaving together archeology, anthropology, linguistics, and geography, Paul Kindstedt’s new book, Cheese and Culture: A History of Cheese and its Place in Western Culture, shows how this extraordinary cultural comestible has influenced and enriched humankind. The lecture will focus on three factors that profoundly shaped the history of cheese: human spirituality, global climate change, and environmental degradation.

Cheese was part of the religious history of western civilization, starting in the Mesopotamian “cradle of civilization.” Yet climate changes and environmental degradation, already occurring in the 4th millennium BCE, pushed cheese making into new directions and set Europe on a track to become the cheese making powerhouse of the world. Cheese making's rich and luscious history, from Neolithic cultures through ancient Rome, medieval Holland, and modern America, will be showcased in a reception featuring artisanal cheeses and cheese recipes.

Paul Kindstedt is a Professor of Food Science at the University of Vermont, and Co-Director of the Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese. Author, with the Vermont Cheese Council, of American Farmstead Cheese (2005), he is a nationally recognized expert on dairy chemistry, cheese science, and cheese making.

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Location:

Mount Vernon Hotel Museum & Garden
417 E. 61st Street (between 1st Avenue and York)
New York, New York 10065

http://www.mvhm.org

Time:
6:30 pm Check-in and reception | 7:00 pm Lecture

Fee: $40 non-members: $25 CHNY and MVMH Members