Wednesday, June 25, 2008

Chants help produce award-winning cheese....


From mirror.co.uk............
Forget talking to flowers to help them grow - apparently chanting to cheese produces much better results.

The head of an Austrian school for dairy farmers claims that an album of chanting recorded by Gregorian monks has been responsible for their prize-winning cheese.

"Cheese matures with the help of micro-organisms which I am sure also feel vibes. The music is very simple and I think that is what helps," said head teacher Erich Kerngast.

The 'Chant Music of Paradise', which reached the top 10 in the UK charts is clearly number one to these Austrian cheese-makers, who play it on repeat to the two-and-a-half tonnes of cheese as it matures in the cellars of the school.

"We put in a Dolby Surround hi-fi system worth £1,600 and have been playing the Gregorian chant over and over again," said Mr Kerngast.

The dairy farmers are obviously doing something right: the school has won a (cheese) string of prizes for its Grottenhofer Auslese cheese since it began playing the monks' chants to the long-suffering produce.





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