Eat cheese to have a good sleep
Say 'cheese'!
Have you practice eating a little amount of cheese before sleeping? Experts say it will help in aiding us to have a good sleep. I usually drink a warm glass of milk before sleeping. But with a tight budget these days, I skipped doing such thing by just drinking a cold glass of water before sleeping to relax my body.
Cheese 101
When I was studying a one-year course in Culinary Arts, I have known that there are many kinds of cheese.
From soft to hard ones, there are many kinds of cheeses to choose from: edam ( soft cheese from Holland), kefalotyri (hard cheese from Greece), Romaine cheese (use in pasta), bleu cheese (very smelly; also from Greece), Emendal (tastes bitter), Parmessan cheese (good for pizza), choco-cheese (sweet cheese from Greece), Feta or white cheese (usually packed in tins and brine solution).
With my experiences in Greek ships working as cook for eight years, I noticed that Greek officers and crew eat more cheese during nighttime. Now, I know why they do such kind of practice. It really gave them a peaceful sleep.
Tryptophan is the amino acid being produced when we eat cheese. It produces serotonin to have a peaceful sleep.
2009 World Record for Cheese Dishes
On December 14th 2009, there are 5, 845 dishes that were produced by Filipino cooks who participated in crashing the World Record set by Indian cooks last year who produced more than 4, 000 dishes using cheese.
Cheese trivia
The 'edam cheese' from Holland came from the place which bears the name of the cheese at the start of the 14th century. History account relates that one captain of a war ship used edam cheeses as cannon balls when they ran out of iron cannon balls. Guess what? They prevented the invaders because of those edam cheeses.