[Sca-cooks] The Chubby Monk

[Robert Downie]

Sharon Gordon wrote:

> http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1261533,00.html
>

Neat article.   I remember seeing the The "doorway" at Alcobaca monastery's
dining room in Portugal.  I though it was something they just made up for the
tourists, but I guess there was more truth to it than I thought :-)

"Portuguese Cistercians had a test: monks unable to squeeze through a certain
doorway at Alcobaca monastery's dining room had to fast while slimmer
colleagues tucked into "pastry in vast abundance".

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