Champion Cheese Carver
Cheese carver and winemaker Troy Landwehr specializes in carving sculptures out of blocks of cheddar cheese.
In a time-lapse video posted to YouTube by the Showtime network, Landwehr carves a 1200-pound block of cheddar into a replica of the Statue of Liberty. The video was intended to advertise the Showtime original series, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union.
Fast Facts
- Length: 2 minutes, 28 seconds
- Shot over the course of 4 days
- Cheese begins to crack on Day 4
- Soundtrack: "Bedridden" by The Sweet Nothings
- Season 2 of State of the Union debuts in early 2009
- Landwehr was commissioned by the Cheez-It cracker company to create a Mt. Rushmore sculpture
- Sculpted Biff Henderson out of cheese on The Late Show with David Letterman
- Started carving cheese at age 121
Related Pages on Mahalo
Cheddar Cheese, Statue of Liberty, Showtime, YouTube, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union
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