A possibly apocryphal story, told  in many places — print and Internet — reads something like this: After a long day of traveling, the emperor Charlemagne stopped at a bishop’s residence to rest, conveniently at dinnertime. In a ninth-century biography of Charlemagne, written by an erudite monk at St. Gall monastery in Switzerland, the author … More At the Tables of the Monks: Charlemagne Loved Cheese (Part IV)