fromage

le fromage (FR N-M) cheese, dairy food obtained when milk solidifies and/or ferments. Cheese is at least 8000 years old, perhaps more, and is probably the result of a fortuitously observed accident involving milk that soured and also jostled during the fermentation, somewhere in the Middle East. Cheese lasts a lot longer than fresh milk. Ancient Roman houses had separate cheese kitchens. Munster cheese comes from the root »monasterium,« indicating that monks developed that ripening process…