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Sao Jorge is noted for tuna and cheese and hard work . Hard work is really emphasized by the museum artifact collection of many pre-electrical human tools and devices. Hard work is also exemplified by the cheese production. So much of the work involved with the cheese production here is purely human effort. waxing, turning over the 24 pound rounds repeatedly, mixing in the 4% salt from the Dead Sea from Israel, removing the wax after storage, slicing and trimming to size the wedges, all this is done manually. One secret ingredient in the cheese making here is in the milk. The Holsteins eat only natural pastures since the grasses and plants grow year-round and one of the favorite plants eaten by the cows is wild mint. Wild mint gives a flavor to the non-pasteurized milk and therefore gives the cheeses a slightly spicy taste which deepens with aging.