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A brie(f) history of cheese - Paul Kindstedt

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Check out our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/teded View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/a-brie-f-history-of-cheese-paul-s-kindstedt Before empires and royalty, before pottery and writing, before metal tools and weapons – there was cheese. As early as 8000 BCE, Neolithic farmers began a legacy of cheesemaking almost as old as civilization. Today, the world produces roughly 22 billion kilograms of cheese a year, shipped and consumed around the globe. Paul Kindstedt shares the history of one of our oldest and most beloved foods. Lesson by Paul S. Kindstedt, directed by Charlotte Cambon. Thank you so much to our patrons for your support! Without you this video would not be possible! Nick Johnson, Won Jang, Johnnie Graham, Junjie Huang, Harshita Jagdish Sahijwani, Amber Alexander, Yelena Baykova, Laurence McMillan, John C. Vesey, Karmi Nguyen, Chung Wah Gnapp, Andrew Sprott, Jane White, Ayan Doss, BRENDAN NEALE, Lawrence Teh Swee Kiang, Alex Pierce, Nick Cozby, Jeffrey Segrest, Anthony Arcis, Ugur Doga Sezgin, Kathryn Vacha, Allyson Martin, Srinivasa C Pasumarthi, 张晓雨, Ann Marie Reus, Nishant Suneja, Javier Lara Rosado, Jerry Yang, Shubham Arora, Sebastian Regez, Danielle Downs, Clovis Norroy, Liz Candee, Vinh-Thuy Nguyen, Amy Lopez, SANG HAN, Aries SW, Sebastiaan Hols, Grimes Gregory, João Henrique Rodrigues, Michael Lucke, Annastasshia Ames, Claudia Hernandez Chavarria, Livia-Alexandra Sarban, Lee , Karthik Balsubramanian, Mathew Samuel, Turine Tran and Ido brown.

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marie_austin 2 weeks, 3 days ago

That's just over 2.2 kg of cheese per person per year. I'm definitely consuming more than my fair share.

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vincent_keer 1 month, 4 weeks ago

For some reason, I remember watching this when I was really young and I keep coming back

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helen_hunter 5 months, 3 weeks ago

3:36 it was this moment that i realized the world was cheese

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dawn_horton 6 months, 3 weeks ago

4:10 munester cheese

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benitosolorzano76 7 months ago

This was like peak Ted ed I watch this once every year

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laurie.morgan 7 months, 2 weeks ago

i watch this video at least once a week like its a vitamin

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ayushman.chaudry 8 months, 2 weeks ago

my comfort video fr

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garry.hayes 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Why does this teach me more than my teachers do

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kerry_nicholson 1 year, 2 months ago

MY CHILDHOOD IS THIS VIDEO

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steven.leon 1 year, 2 months ago

this video randomly pops up in my feed and i just HAVE to watch it

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udarshsolara37 1 year, 3 months ago

Comfort video material

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johnaura45 1 year, 4 months ago

1:29 i find it funny how the composition of lactose looks like it says "ono" like god was gonna make it troublesome

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josué_costela 1 year, 4 months ago

0:14 "there was 🧀" Edit1: guys thx for all the comments i never had this much and 200+ likes?!?! Thanks yall! Edit2: AN-225 LIKES?!?!?!

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zoé_rousset 1 year, 4 months ago

4:25 so what you’re saying is when I eat these tasty treats… I should say “thank god!”

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ianvoid39 1 year, 4 months ago

1:11 “a diverse chromakopia”

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saanvi.sha 1 year, 5 months ago

I watch this everytime I eat cheese

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grégoire_louis 1 year, 7 months ago

This is genuinely my comfort video over every other video on the internet. I don’t know man, nothing can combat positive history & wholesome cheese animation

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monica.proctor 1 year, 11 months ago

Fun fact: Blue cheese was made when some farmer forgot his lunch that contained cheese in a cave for three months, after those three months he suddenly remembered about his lunch, he went back in the cave to see that his cheese was blue!

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lucieadam19 2 years, 2 months ago

I never knew that cheese could have such an interesting history

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eshana.modi 2 years, 2 months ago

this is my comfort video.