Back in the seventh century the monks of the "Monasterium Confluentes," located in what is now called Munster Valley, invented "Munster Kaes" in order to preserve milk and feed the great numbers of people crowding round the monastery.

Ever since then, Alsace and Lorraine have put their talents together to produce a unique cheese. Since the herds grazed on the stubble fields on the Lorraine-side of the Vosges Massif, and the rent for these fields,

payable in the form of a day's production of cheese to the Duke of Lorraine, was paid in Gérardmer ("Géromé" in the Vosges dialect), "Munster Kaes" also came to be known as Géromé" as of the eighth century.

Today, the name of this "appellation contrôlée" cheese preserves its historic roots and is a reminder of this tradition.
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