Around 4,000 years ago, butter became a basic and important food. It all started, so the story goes, one hot day when a Nomad tied a pouch of milk to his horse’s neck and later found out that the heat and shaking had transformed the milk into a tasty yellow product. Interestingly, modern butter, manufactured and processed by scientific methods, has not changed very much from the earliest product and still plays a pivotal role in our daily lives. Today, France has the highest butter consumption in Europe, with SIMON SAS in Cherbourg as a leading manufacturer of butter machinery.
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