Giant Cheese Sculpture at Indiana Fair

Updated: Thursday, 13 Aug 2009, 5:54 PM EDT
Published : Thursday, 13 Aug 2009, 5:26 PM EDT

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(MYFOX NATIONAL) - This year’s Indiana State Fair is featuring a milky masterpiece – a sculpture made entirely of cheese.

The work of art depicting a family shopping was carved out of two 640-pound blocks of cheddar, and also includes gouda, white cheddar, pepper jack and even string cheese.

The sculpture was commissioned by the American Dairy Association of Indiana.

Sarah Kaufmann spent five days inside a cooler creating the sculpture.

"I started this sculpture on Friday morning with the big 640-pound blocks in place already. … The rest of these pieces are all slabs that came out of the middle of the sculpture. I would say it's taken me about 75 hours to complete this project," Kaufmann says.