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Cheese | An International Star  Cheese is one of the oldest and
most widely used foods. It can be served alone or incorporated
into a prepared dish as a principle ingredient or it can be used
to accompany a wide array of presentations.  Cheese is a food
product made from the pressed curd of milk and/or cream. It is
believed that goat and sheep milk were the first milks used to
prepare cheese. This assumption is drawn from the idea that
these were the first milk-producing animals that were
domesticated. Today, cow's milk is the basis for most cheeses,
which are produced. It is followed in turn by sheep's milk,
goat's milk and water buffalo's milk. Yaks, camels and Llama are
also milk-producing animals whose milk are utilized to prepare
cheeses.  Cheeses are a product of their environment. Certain
cheeses, which are produced in France or Italy, cannot be
reproduced in other parts of the world because the environment
isn't the same. The milk derived from