On Tue, 22 Sep 1998, Amadeus Schmidt wrote:

> Annother example, cheese: first thing what American Sioux-Hunters ate,
> after killing a Bison calv was eating the soured milk
> of its stomach - fresh white cheese.
> That was available to all hunters of mammals in every millenium.

That's interesting.  I never heard of this practice before.  It's
similar to a point made by Mary Enig in defense of cheese, namely
that cheese is partially digested milk, and that the part of the
digestive process that is challenging to humans (the digestion of
the lactose) is already done.

Todd Moody
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