Could one make an interesting essay on the history of cheese?

1. What could the history of cheese tell us?     
2.  What could the essay be about? What could your essay title be?

NB: This will be obviously influenced by my opinion that yes, one can.


Well, you could explore many things cheese tells us. These are some ideas:

• economic development: in general, maybe higher cheese consumption shows economic prosperity, so as a country develops, the cheese consumption would increase.
• education: as people become more educated about a balanced diet, consumption decreases?
• women's figure: maybe when it was attractive for women to be robust, cheese was eaten more often?
• transport increase: more variety of cheese in a country as the transport improves
• agricultural development: better quality cheese as the methods of production changes, so higher consumption? Or, maybe, in certain countries, when there waasn't any transport each region made its own cheese, so there was more variety?
• industrialisation: higher consumption as lower prices, owing to machinery or easier packaging?
• difference in treatment in animals: better quality cheese as the animals are treated better
• influence of a country on another: for example, consumption of cheese in China has increased as Western influence has. Or maybe French influence on England has increased, also increasing cheese consumption.
• events: do wars affect the consumption? does a political party being in place induce higher consumption of cheese? etc.

You could go about making the essay in different ways.
One could be more general, such as:

• How does change in society affect the change in consumption of cheese?
• As a country develops, how does the consumption of cheese change?
• As a country develops, how does the people/classes consuming cheese change?
• As a country/area develops, how do the occasions people eat cheese on change?

However, to make it easier, you would probably have to be more specific; for instance specifying the type of cheese or when? or where? so that you wouldn't have to find an eternity of examples to use as evidence!:

• How did the consumption of cheese in England change when the number of immigrants increased?
• Did the great depression of 1929 affect the consumption of cheese around the world?
• How did the increase in railways under Tsar Alexander II affect the consumption of cheese in Russia?
• How did the changing society in Italy in the twentieth century affect the consumption of cheese?