Mother Noella & The Cycles of Life

The microecosystems of cheese.

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All photography by Nicholas Gill.

“Benedict was just a cheese,” Mother Noella Marcellino tells me as we look at Trichothecium roseum, bacteria growing on the rind of one of the cheeses she makes at the Benedictine Abbey of Regina Laudis…