A quick look at how blue cheese was discovered

The origin story for blue cheese is really widespread. It is the story of a shepherd who forgets his lunch only to find it much later covered in mold. How much truth is there to this story?

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Sources
Dumas, Emilie, et al. "Independent Domestication Events in the Blue-Cheese Fungus Penicillium Roqueforti." bioRxiv (2019): 451773.
Palmer, Ned. A Cheesemonger's History of the British Isles. London: Profile Books, 2019.
Smith, Charmian. "Singing the Blues." Otago Daily Times, 25 August 2021.
Tunick, Michael H. The Science of Cheese. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Images
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Map showing New Zealand (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi...)

00:00 Introduction
01:14 The Story of the Shepherd
02:28 Blue Mold
05:05 Truth or Myth?
06:08 Thanks for watching

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