Friday, June 04, 2010

World record for largest ever cheese sculpture broken by British woman

A British woman has broken the world record for the largest ever cheese sculpture after carving a half-ton replica of the Queen’s Coronation crown – out of cheddar.

Cordon Bleu chef Tanys Pullin, 46, spent over 100 hours sculpting 600kg of Farmhouse Cheddar to mark the 57th anniversary of the Queen’s Coronation.



She worked in a cold storage room to protect the structure of the crown, which smashed the previous world record by over 200kg, when it weighed in at 500.4kg.

Mother-of-four Tanys, from Wells, Somerset, who also makes wedding cakes out of cheese, said she is ”very relieved” to have broken the record.

2 comments:

Marilyn Terrell said...

Reminds me of the dairy princess butter sculptures at the Minnesota State Fair, photo #11 in this gallery of state fair photos from National Geographic http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2009/07/state-fairs/sartore-photography

Arbroath said...

Heh, that's good!

I have to say I'm not a great fan of these flash-based photo galleries.

They probably load a touch quicker, but it's impossible to link to anything except the whole gallery.