Our Goal is Cheese!

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RadishRose said:
The Cheese Nuns of Connecticut

The Abbey of Regina Laudis, founded in 1947 in Bethlehem, Connecticut, U.S.A., is a community of contemplative Benedictine women dedicated to the praise of God through prayer and work.

Because the Bethlehem CT cheese is made with the raw milk of our hand-milked cows without the addition of commercial cultures of bacteria or fungi, it provides a model for the study of microbial ecology within a natural environment. When our Community made the decision in 1987 to send four of our members to the University of Connecticut for advanced degrees in agriculture, the biodiversity of cheese-ripening fungi became the basis of Mother Noella Marcellino's doctoral research in Microbiology.

With the aid of a Fulbright Scholarship and a subsequent three-year fellowship from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique (INRA), she was privileged to travel to six traditional cheese-making regions of France to collect native strains of the yeast-like fungus Geotrichum candidum and to assess its biochemical and genetic diversity in her host laboratory.

https://abbeyofreginalaudis.org/index.html

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Mother Noella on the Science and Spirituality of Cheesemaking
https://www.cbsnews.com/video/mother-noella-on-the-science-and-spirituality-of-cheesemaking/#x

In this web exclusive, Mother Noella, a Benedictine Nun of the Abbey of Regina Laudis, talks with correspondent Mo Rocca about enzymes—the catalyst in the traditional cheesemaking process—and how they relate to the spiritual. You can, she says, find the universe in a microbe.

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Dolores Hart, a former Hollywood actress, (Where The Boys Are) has been a Nun there for many years now. She is a member of the Academy Awards Board.
 
Lewkat said:
Dolores Hart, a former Hollywood actress, (Where The Boys Are) has been a Nun there for many years now. She is a member of the Academy Awards Board.
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I remember her. She was in the movie "Where The Boys Are". I posted an article about the Cheese Nuns early in this thread if you want to see more. Although I knew Dolores had entered a convent, I didn't know it was this one!
 
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