Question 1

Which country eats the most cheese per person?

Accepted Answer

France has long been famous for the highest cheese consumption, at roughly sixty pounds per person a year, but recent figures place Denmark and sometimes Iceland ahead. The answer depends on whether you count only cheese eaten directly or also cheese hidden in processed foods.

Question 2

Why does France eat so much cheese?

Accepted Answer

France treats cheese as a course served near the end of most meals rather than an occasional snack, and it produces hundreds of protected regional varieties. Centuries of monastic cheese-making and origin laws like the 1411 Roquefort charter made cheese a matter of national identity and daily habit.

Question 3

How old is cheese?

Accepted Answer

Cheese is at least seven to eight thousand years old. Archaeologist Melanie Salque analyzed perforated pottery from Poland dated to the sixth millennium BC and found milk-fat residues, confirming they were cheese strainers, among the oldest evidence of cheese-making yet found.

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The Long Argument Over Who Eats the Most Cheese