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Who Needs the Terracota Army When You Got The Gingerbread Army

By Alex in Food & Drinks on Oct 1, 2007 at 4:54 pm


Who needs the Terracota Army when you can have the Gingerbread Army?

An army of gingerbread soldiers has been created as an edible rival to China’s famous Terracotta Army.

The hundreds of edible soldiers claim to be a painstaking miniature re-creation of 2000-year-old treasures. The men, depicted in full battle dress, will go on display to visitors at the three-day Nantwich Food and Drink Festival, which opens on Friday.

Kellie Burgess, of The Pastry Case bakery, said: "They are only three inches tall so it took staff hours to be able to paint each of the figures individually with terracotta coloured icing. "It required a lot of patience but we are delighted with results."

Link – via yumsugar, thanks Sabrina!


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  1. Joe Giarratano
    Oct 3rd, 2007 at 12:25 pm

    The ATP has commissioned a sculptor to create Terracotta Warriors of the best eight tennis players in the world to mark the Tennis Masters Cup, the prestigious circuit ending championship held in Shanghai, China. The life-size warrior statues will be created by French sculptor Laury Dizengremel in China and will be unveiled all together as a group on November 11 in Shanghai.
    Check out the video of the sculptor at work on YouTube

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EytRiKeOmTY

    http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory?id=3619139

    http://tinyurl.com/34v8c4

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