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• 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

  1. Length: 2 minutes, 28 seconds
  2. Shot over the course of 4 days
  3. Cheese begins to crack on Day 4
  4. Soundtrack: "Bedridden" by The Sweet Nothings
  5. Season 2 of State of the Union debuts in early 2009
  6. Landwehr was commissioned by the Cheez-It cracker company to create a Mt. Rushmore sculpture
  7. Sculpted Biff Henderson out of cheese on The Late Show with David Letterman
  8. Started carving cheese at age 12Scholastic: Wedge Works (June 2008)

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  Cheddar Cheese, Statue of Liberty, Showtime, YouTube, Tracey Ullman's State of the Union

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