Most experts consider that the history of cheese first started in the Middle East, probably coinciding with the domestication of sheep and goats and the realisation that they could be milked. But legend has it that it was ‘found’ by an obscure Arab wanderer. He is said to have filled a saddlebag with milk to support him on a long trip on horseback. Following a few hours riding, he stopped to extinguish his thirst, to find that the milk had separated into a pale watery fluid and strong white lumps. Since the saddlebag, which was produced using the stomach of
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