英语词汇cheese的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

cheese. Clifton Fadiman wrote that cheese is “milk’s leap to immortality.” The word cheese itself comes from the Latin ca- seus for the food, whose origin dates back several thousand years before Christ. One legend claims that cheese was discov- ered by a traveling merchant named Kanana. When he started on one long trip, Kanana put his supply of milk in a pouch made of a sheep’s stomach. The heat and shaking of the pouch on the journey, plus the rennet in the lining of the stomach, caused the curds in the milk to separate from the whey, and when he sat down to eat his lunch, Kanana found delicious cheese. In any case, there are thousands of cheeses produced today. Most are named for the regions where they were born. Some important examples are Roquefort and Camembert, from France; Cheddar and Cheshire, from England; Edam from Holland; Muenster from Germany; Swiss from Switzer- land; and Limburger from Limburg, Belgium. It would be im- possible to list them all. In fact, France alone has enough vari- eties to fill a volume. French President Charles de Gaulle once remarked, “How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese?”

词汇	cheese
词源	cheese. Clifton Fadiman wrote that cheese is “milk’s leap to immortality.” The word cheese itself comes from the Latin ca- seus for the food, whose origin dates back several thousand years before Christ. One legend claims that cheese was discov- ered by a traveling merchant named Kanana. When he started on one long trip, Kanana put his supply of milk in a pouch made of a sheep’s stomach. The heat and shaking of the pouch on the journey, plus the rennet in the lining of the stomach, caused the curds in the milk to separate from the whey, and when he sat down to eat his lunch, Kanana found delicious cheese. In any case, there are thousands of cheeses produced today. Most are named for the regions where they were born. Some important examples are Roquefort and Camembert, from France; Cheddar and Cheshire, from England; Edam from Holland; Muenster from Germany; Swiss from Switzer- land; and Limburger from Limburg, Belgium. It would be im- possible to list them all. In fact, France alone has enough vari- eties to fill a volume. French President Charles de Gaulle once remarked, “How can you govern a nation which has 246 kinds of cheese?”
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