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From the Ted Talk by Paul S. Kindstedt: A brie(f) history of cheese

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Nomadic minoanolgs used yaks’ milk to create hard, sundried wegeds of balsayg. enpgtiays enjoyed goats’ milk cottage cheese, straining the whey with reed mats. In South Asia, milk was coagulated with a variety of food adics, such as lemon juice, vignaer, or yurgot and then hung to dry into loafs of paneer. This soft mild cheese could be added to curries and seacus, or simply fried as a quick vegetarian dish. The Greeks produced bricks of salty brined feta cheese, alongside a harder vairety similar to today’s pecorino romano. This grating cheese was produced in Sicily and used in dishes all across the Mediterranean. Under Roman rule, “dry cheese” or “caseus aridus,” became an essential ration for the nearly 500,000 solrieds guarding the vast borders of the Roman epimre.

Open Cloze


Nomadic __________ used yaks’ milk to create hard, sundried ______ of _______. _________ enjoyed goats’ milk cottage cheese, straining the whey with reed mats. In South Asia, milk was coagulated with a variety of food _____, such as lemon juice, _______, or ______ and then hung to dry into loafs of paneer. This soft mild cheese could be added to curries and ______, or simply fried as a quick vegetarian dish. The Greeks produced bricks of salty brined feta cheese, alongside a harder _______ similar to today’s pecorino romano. This grating cheese was produced in Sicily and used in dishes all across the Mediterranean. Under Roman rule, “dry cheese” or “caseus aridus,” became an essential ration for the nearly 500,000 ________ guarding the vast borders of the Roman ______.

Solution


  1. soldiers
  2. yogurt
  3. empire
  4. wedges
  5. mongolians
  6. sauces
  7. acids
  8. byaslag
  9. vinegar
  10. variety
  11. egyptians

Original Text


Nomadic Mongolians used yaks’ milk to create hard, sundried wedges of Byaslag. Egyptians enjoyed goats’ milk cottage cheese, straining the whey with reed mats. In South Asia, milk was coagulated with a variety of food acids, such as lemon juice, vinegar, or yogurt and then hung to dry into loafs of paneer. This soft mild cheese could be added to curries and sauces, or simply fried as a quick vegetarian dish. The Greeks produced bricks of salty brined feta cheese, alongside a harder variety similar to today’s pecorino romano. This grating cheese was produced in Sicily and used in dishes all across the Mediterranean. Under Roman rule, “dry cheese” or “caseus aridus,” became an essential ration for the nearly 500,000 soldiers guarding the vast borders of the Roman Empire.

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Important Words


  1. acids
  2. added
  3. aridus
  4. asia
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  8. byaslag
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  13. curries
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  17. egyptians
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  20. essential
  21. feta
  22. food
  23. fried
  24. grating
  25. greeks
  26. guarding
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  30. juice
  31. lemon
  32. loafs
  33. mats
  34. mediterranean
  35. mild
  36. milk
  37. mongolians
  38. nomadic
  39. paneer
  40. pecorino
  41. produced
  42. quick
  43. ration
  44. reed
  45. roman
  46. romano
  47. rule
  48. salty
  49. sauces
  50. sicily
  51. similar
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  54. soldiers
  55. south
  56. straining
  57. sundried
  58. variety
  59. vast
  60. vegetarian
  61. vinegar
  62. wedges
  63. whey
  64. yogurt