[blam]

"Could be a technology advance that encouraged this anti-alcohol gene to get a foothold. Living in yurts and drinking fermented mares milk probably served to kill off all the folks who persisted in letting it get "too fermented". Must be a gazillion diseases that just love mares milk."

Maybe not.

Feta Cheese Made From Raw Milk Has Natural Anti-food-poisoning Properties

[muawiyah]

That's feta cheese, in Greece, and there's an enormous tourist industry behind the research (I'm sure).

No reputable scientist living in Greece would ever dare say fresh feta was not the healthiest thing in the world.

Over in Bulgaria the big deal is mares milk cheese ~ not feta.

Communism kept the Bulgarians so cut off from the mainstream of modern development that once the Iron Curtain was lifted and people were allowed to revert to their natural order of life, the Bulgarians found they were still making what had become high priced, boutique type agricultural products ~ mares milk cheese, rough bread with pockets of crushed grain hulls, etc.

They still make a fortune off this stuff and export it everywhere ~ even to the Afghan store down the street. Talk about a reputation for doing it the old way ~ the Afghans came here KNOWING about Bulgarian cheese and bread.