Not so much celebrating cheese, as those who love it. Admittedly, it's hard to do that without actually celebrating the cheese itself.
Cheese is a product that is made from milk, and there are many different types of milk that can be used to make cheese, although cow's milk is generally the most common. The other main milk types are goat, sheep and buffalo.
Cheese is an old food, dating back to at least 5500 BC, and possibly being even older, as this is simply the date of the oldest cheese making equipment that has been found. It's believed that cheese manufacture could date back to 8000 BC. Cheese, especially those that have a hard rind (or wax in some modern cases), can have a very long shelf life, with hard cheeses generally lasting the longest. This makes cheese a useful prepared food that can be stored until consumption, an important element in earlier civilisation.
Just as there are different types of milk used to make cheese, there are different types of cheese. there are hard cheeses, and soft cheeses, and cheeses at various steps in between the two. Cheese are used in both savoury and sweet dishes, cheesecakes being one of the most common of the latter (soft cheese are most commonly used in sweet dishes), although not every type of cheese is suited for sweet dishes. Other ingredients are also added to cheese, such as fruit, herbs and spices, with one of the most common being mould, which creates mouldy, or blue, cheese. Some cheese are also smoked.
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