Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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An interesting history of British cheesemaking
http://www.cheeseboard.co.uk/new/cheese/storyofcheesemaking.htm -
Cheese and the Royal Navy:
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Suffolk Cheese
(three Google hits)
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Suffolk cheese sounds better than the mousetrap cheese [even the poor mice refused to nibble]that was available during WWII.
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Warrington adds the following: ” This prejudice extended to the days of Pope, whose country mouse entertained his courtly guest with:
‘Cheese such as men in Suffolk make,
But wished it Stilton for his sake’
(Imitations of Horace, Bk ii, Sat 6)
See also Shadwell’s ‘Worls’ vol. iv, p.350. -
Dutch cheeses : Still life with cheese Floris Van Dijck 1615 20 apples ,fruit and two wheels of cheese .
http://www.vincent.nl/?/gallery/oilreproduction.asp?vagnr=a2643&ref=