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Cloistered Citizens Are Upper-Crust Bakers

An upstate New York order of monks who don't even watch TV or listen to the radio will soon be going hi-tech to offer their baked goods for sale on the internet. According to FoxNews.com, bread has been produced at the Abbey of the Genesee in the hamlet of Piffard, south of Rochester, NY, for half a century. Brother Paul Richards says thousands of loaves are baked at the monastery each week, for sale in supermarkets in Buffalo, Syracuse, Binghamton and Erie, Pennsylvania. Monks' Bread fans from outside the region already can place orders using a toll-free phone line. And Brother Paul says within the next two or three weeks, an online ordering system should be fully functional on the Monks' Bread website. He says limited online ordering for special creations like chocolate chip whiskey cakes and brownies proved popular over the past holiday season.

FOOTNOTE: Their ad jingle could be, ``Hey, hey, We're The Monk Ease''.