239 Rise and Rind

Cheesy and Fondue talks about cheese for breakfast. We talk about the history of breakfast as we know it today. We discuss pastries, cheese bread and even hot chocolate. And of course, we tell a very cheesy joke!

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Show Notes

https://amazingfoodanddrink.com/evolution-of-breakfast-traditions/

https://food2mouth.com/evolution-of-breakfast-worldwide/

https://eatshistory.com/pao-de-queijo-brazils-beloved-cheese-bread/

https://www.chebe.com/pages/history-of-pao-de-queijo-brazilian-cheese-bread?srsltid=AfmBOoryH9YvkOxevvdZ8QpA4Jbf35ECcaF3_mg7T8gRCS7pkc2jHwpk

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pão_de_queijo

https://fooddrinklife.com/traditional-colombian-food/

https://arepasdelgringo.com/colombian-hot-chocolate-melted-cheese/

https://www.mycolombianrecipes.com/cheese-cornmeal-patties-arepas-de-queso/

https://immigrantstable.com/authentic-colombian-cheese-arepas/

https://www.tastyaz.com/colombian-cheese-arepas-from-encanto/

https://cheesegrotto.com/blogs/journal/history-of-cheese-part-1-the-ancient-origins-of-cheese?srsltid=AfmBOoqXTY8e5Nba22Kje8SB7bVxjrAK4oBi-1fxt7mg8KrVXgoxA2ps

https://www.harryanddavid.com/articles/food-drink/breakfast-around-the-world?srsltid=AfmBOooKE8_aGYC9G8D_BYaSTORkwsHHcViRr1vqCOuSdhtM9ycDQO_6

https://www.mashed.com/39347/bizarre-things-rest-world-eats-breakfast/

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/breakfast

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breakfast

https://www.dictionary.com/articles/fasting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasting

https://adlofit.medium.com/a-brief-history-of-breakfast-and-why-you-should-skip-it-e128111aec25

Episode Transcript

(00:02):
Just Cheesy the podcastpresented by Just Cheesy Productions.
Hi there. I'm your host, Fondue.
And I'm Cheesy.
In this week's episode, we'retalking all about cheese for breakfast.
We're gonna talk about cheesebread, we're gonna talk about cheese
pastry, and we're gonna talkabout cheese in your hot chocolate.

(00:24):
What?
And of course, we're gonnatell a very cheesy joke. Stay tuned
for episode ris on Just Cheesythe podcast. According to the food
history site Amazing Food andDrink, the word breakfast originated
in Europe in the 15th century.
Holy cow.
And it didn't become a dailyritual for most people until the

(00:46):
1600s. Before that, breakfastwas just considered a meal for laborers
who needed energy for veryphysical work. And according to the
Global Bites food historysite, for those medieval Europeans
who did eat breakfast, ittypically consisted of bread, cheese
and ale. Wiktionary andWikipedia have the etymology of the
word. It comes from the middleEnglish word brek fast. It combined

(01:10):
break and fast, literallymeaning end the nightly fast. Wikipedia
says that old English speakerscalled it oh boy, Morgan mete, which
simply meant morning meal.
Oh, sure.
So you went to bed, you slept,you stopped eating, and you started
again. The fast itself was notalways just about sleep, though it

(01:31):
wasn't. According toDictionary.com fasting has been significant
across human history for atleast three reasons. Health, religion,
and culture. Sometimes allthree at once. The ancient Greek
physician Hippocratesrecommended fasting for people who
were ill. The Greek priestsand priestesses fasted for their
deities. The exact reason maydiffer by religion and culture, but

(01:52):
the underlying idea isgenerally the same. To get closer
to something greater thanyourself by setting aside physical
comfort. And I'm pretty sure Iwould have trouble with that because
I just learned about somethingthat Brazil has really they have,
I consider to be one of thegreatest breakfast cheese delivery
systems in the world. It'scalled, and I am going to butcher

(02:12):
it, pon de queijo, whichtranslates as cheese bread. According
to Eats history and the foodhistory site Chibi, the story of
this cheese bread begins inthe 17th century, okay? The African
enslaved communities used thestarchy residue left over from the
processing of cassava root,which landowners considered inedible.

(02:33):
And they used this to makesmall bread rolls. The 19th century,
after slavery was abolished,cheese and milk were added to the
recipe. The result, a smallround baked cheese roll with a crispy
outside and a chewy, stretchyinside. According to wikipedia, by
the 19th century, this waswidely recognized throughout Brazil
as a Breakfast and snack food.And by the 20th century, frozen versions

(02:57):
began to be mass produced fornationwide distribution.
Wow.

(03:52):
Today, it's sold from streetstands and bakeries and airports
and even in Braziliansteakhouses worldwide. Oh. Makers
of the Brazilian Pont deQueijo are not sponsors, but if they
were, their ad would go righthere. Apparently, there's something
that America does that therest of the world finds slightly
bewildering. The breakfastgrilled cheese.

(04:13):
What? Why?
According to Mashed, they havea roundup of bizarre world breakfast
traditions.
That's not bizarre.
Putting cheese in or on hotdrinks or hot foods first thing in
the morning is consideredunusual by many cultures. According
to multiple sources, theFrench consider eating cheese at
breakfast borderlineinappropriate, and they reserve it
for the cheese course afterdinner. Okay. I'd say that breakfast

(04:36):
grilled cheese is a butteredbread with melted cheese served first
thing in the morning issimple, delicious. It's ancient in
concept and arguably the mostdirect expression of cheese's purpose
in the world. You take bread,you take cheese, you apply heat,
and you eat that for breakfast.
Oh, yeah.
There's a breakfast traditionthat sounds amazing.
Amazing.
In Turkey, they have abreakfast tradition centered on a

(04:57):
white cheese that is a grindfresh cheese similar to feta. It's
served alongside olives,tomatoes, cucumbers, and eggs.
Yummy.
And according toCheeseGrado.com, turkey A also has
something called lor cheese.It's fresh, it's milky, it's acid
heat, coagulated, and it'sused to stuff flaky pastries called
boreka.

(05:18):
Yummy.
It can also be eaten withfruit preserves or honey. For breakfast,
Bulgaria takes it a stepfurther. According to Harry and David's
food history site, Bulgarianbreakfast features banista, a thin,
crispy phyllo dough la layeredwith beaten eggs and cheese and baked
until golden. And if thatdoesn't do it for you, maybe you
should go to Colombia. They'vetaken cheese at breakfast and done

(05:41):
something nobody else ought todo, really. According to Food, Drink
Life and Arepas del gringo,Colombian hot chocolate called chocolate
caliente. It's made with wholemilk chocolate shavings, and it's
sweetened with a block ofbrown cane sugar. Sounds normal,
right? But it's served with asmall piece of fresh Colombian cheese.

(06:01):
That cheese is directlydropped into the cup. It softens.
It becomes slightly mealy asyou drink it. I'm trying to keep
an open mind. I like a lot ofdifferent foods, but this one I think
I'd have to try to know if I'Dlike it. So you drop that piece of
cheese in and it does notfully dissolve. You either eat it
at the end or you scoop it outpartway through. And if you think

(06:23):
about it, you put some cheesein hot chocolate, you drink around
it, then you eat warm cheese.I guess if you say it like that,
it doesn't sound quite so bad.This makes it a little better for
me. It's traditionally servedalongside arepas con queso, according
to multiple food sources,including my Colombian recipes and
immigrants table. And let metell you, these things are good.

(06:44):
I've had them. Arepas conqueso are corn cakes. They're stuffed
with melted mozzarella style cheese.
Oh, yeah.
They're cooked on a griddleuntil golden outside and molten inside.
And according to Tasty Az arepiscon queso appear in the Disney
film Encanto where thecharacter Julietta makes cheese arepas

(07:04):
that have healing powers. AndI'm gonna tell you, I believe it.
Oh, yeah.
But breakfast as we know ittoday, the phrase the most important
meal of the day. We've heardthis most of our lives. Yeah. That
phrase, well, it did not comefrom any kind of nutritional science.
It came from a Kellogg'smarketing campaign in 1917 to sell

(07:24):
cornflakes. The most importantmeal of the day was invented by cereal
marketing.
I'm ready for a joke fondue.
Okay. What did the cheese sayto the pancake?
I don't know. What?
You're flipping amazing.
I liked it.
Oh, I really like that one.And it was a little bit cheesy. Thanks

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for listening to Just Cheesy,the podcast episode Rise and rhyme.
Thank you.
You know, cheese has been onthe breakfast table since before
breakfast was officially ameal. And it's not leaving anytime
soon.
Nope.
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And stay cheesy, everybody.