PIFFARD, N.Y. — The heady scent of anise wafts through the air as six monks bake biscotti at the Abbey of the Genesee. Slabs of biscotti dough, having been baked once and cooled, are piled into ...

PIFFARD, NY (WKBW-TV) — According to Father Isaac Slater, Prior at the Abbey Of The Genesee in Piffard, New York, the place is quiet "everywhere except the bakery". This is the birthplace of Monk's ...

28 monks live at the Abbey of the Genesee in Piffard, Livingston County. The monks wake up at 2 a.m. and their first vigil of the day is at 2:25 a.m. The baking of biscotti begins at 4 a.m. Silence is ...

The abbey was first established in 1951, by a group of brothers from the Abbey of Gethsemani in Trappist, Ky. Brother Sylvester, one of the Abbey of the Genesee's founding fathers who was also a baker ...

Those people probably haven't tried the fruitcakes from Assumption Abbey. It's a community of Catholic priests and monks near the small town of Ava, Missouri, about a three-hour drive, almost dead ...

Monk’s Bread's seasonal varieties fall into the breakfast bread category and complement its year round line. Altering the seasons For half a century, Monk’s Bread has marched to the beat of a ...

On Michigan’s Keweenaw Peninsula, you’ll find a sweet bakery, Jampot, run by monks. We ordered the Poorrock Abbey traditional sourdough fruitcake. In a monastery tucked on the Lake Superior shore of ...

An abbey, for most people, is a religious community, which is the main purpose of the Abbey of the Genesee, located just north of Geneseo. But that abbey is also home to the bakery that makes 11 kinds ...

CULLMAN, Ala. (AP) — Catholicism is sensual. It’s a religion that engages the senses to bring mankind closer to the Divine. Taste is, of course, one of the senses — one of the ways people have been ...

According to Father Isaac Slater, Prior at the Abbey Of The Genesee in Piffard, New York, the place is quiet "everywhere except the bakery". This is the birthplace of Monk's Bread, an impressive ...