Dairy create nativity scene out of cheddar - including baby Cheesus
Artist Prudence Staite who has made a nativity scene made out of cheese. It is exactly one month until Christmas and no festive period is complete without great cheese and a nativity scene – so why not combine the two? A Cheddar cheese company has done just that - hired a sculptor who used around 40KG of mature cheddar to carefully fashion a highly detailed scene, complete with all the essentials of a Christmas nativity. At first glance it may look like a typical nativity setting, but there is one key difference with this seasonal scene – it has been painstakingly crafted by hand entirely from cheese. There is, of course, a cheese Joseph and cheese Mary huddled around a cheese crib with a cheese shepherd and even cheese wise men carrying gifts of Branston pickle, as well as cheese sheep, a cheese cow and, of course, a cheese donkey in tow. But at the centre of the meticulously sculpted model, which also has its own detailed stable housing the characters, is the young infant whose story is so famed – Baby Jesus. Commissioned by Pilgrims Choice cheddar cheese, the nativity scene was hand-carved by renowned food artist Prudence Staite in her special workshop based in Tewkesbury, Gloucestershire.