What’s up with Ewe? The Rise and Fall of English Sheep’s Milk Cheese

Authors

  • Mark Dawson Independent Scholar Author

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28110

Keywords:

Sheep's Milk Cheese, United Kingdom, England, yields, medieval manorial practice, cow dairying, social history, 19th Century, agricultural surveys, socioeconomic, 1980s, artisan producers

Abstract

This essay looks at sources indicating the historical importance of sheep's milk cheese in England and poses reasons for its decline in the middle ages through the modern era and the reason for the rise of artisan producers in the 1980s.

Author Biography

  • Mark Dawson, Independent Scholar

    Mark Dawson received his doctorate from Nottingham University for his study of the Willoughby family in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. His book on the subject, Plenti and Grase, is published by Prospect Books.

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Published

2017-01-01

Issue

PPC 107 (2017)

Section

Articles

How to Cite

What’s up with Ewe? The Rise and Fall of English Sheep’s Milk Cheese. (2017). Petits Propos Culinaires, 52-62. https://doi.org/10.1558/ppc.28110