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Munster
AOC Cheese Like many other cheeses in France, Munster cheese was originally invented by monks. It started back in the year 660 in Alsace when a monastery was founded by a group of Benedictine monks. The monastory was soon surrounded by a village which was called Munster. The name came from the Latin word for monastery - Monasterium. Originally, the monks chose the meadows of the Vosges to graze their cows but soon moved further west to richer meadows on the other side of the Vosges mountain ranges in Lorraine. In 1285 the people of Alsace and Lorraine founded a new city called Sancti Gerardi Mare, which is now kown as Gérardmer and pronounced géromé by the people that lived there. The cities were often at war and soon the people of Lorraine (having learned how to make cheese), called it Géromé, instead of Munster. Today the soft cheese is called Munster in the east of the Vosges in Alsace, and is called Géromé in the west, in Lorraine! In 1978, the people of Alsace and Lorraine resolved their age old disputes and now share the Appellation d'Origine Contrôlée that we know today. Origin: Lorraine |
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