Butter

Do you ever wonder how some foods were discovered? There are certain foods that suggest that mankind must have been very hungry; for example why did we learn to eat octopus and eel.

According to historians, butter was discovered about 11,000 years ago in Mesopotamia when goat or sheep milk was shaken as the person or animal carrying it walked along.

All milk contains microscopic fat molecules and cream contains significantly more. By agitating or "churning" the cream, the fat pools together to form globs of butter.

It was so tasty and nutritious that people began making it on purpose.

Butter factories appeared in North American in the 1806's, soon after cheese manufacturing.

Butter does fall in and out of favour based on current theories about weight and diet. While butter contains more calories than margarine, recent studies show that it gives people a satiety- a feeling of fullness-that margarine doesn't.

Enjoy your butter and think about that person who looked in the container that was being transported and tasted the substance and decided that it might be worth using. Very adventurous and we are glad that it happened.