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A team with key members from Athens competing in the World Pizza Championships in Salsomaggiore, Italy this week came home with the silver medal for Artistic Bread Sculpture with their creation of an all-natural Statue of Liberty bread sculpture.
The team included Ohio University executive chef Matt Rapposelli, Avalanche pizza owner John Gutekanst and Petra Kralickova, director of exhibitions at Ohio University art galleries. Also on the team was Tony Gemignani from California, Bruno DiFabio from New York and William Manzo from Rhode Island.
The Statue of Liberty sculpture took under 30 hours to complete from start to finish, and was built in the agugiaro Stagioni Flour Mill in Padova, Italy near Venice.
The team then transported the lady by pieces in two vans to the championships. The Lady Liberty statue was made with all natural buckwheat, rye and all natural spinach, beet and curry powders for coloring.
Judges were reportedly even more impressed, as no meal or wire was used to hold the statue up. The statue stood 6 feet tall and, on the table, nearly 10 feet tall.
"Judges were impressed by the time it took to build, the detail of the statue, that it was all natural with no metal inside for supports," said Gemignani, president of the World Pizza Champions, Inc. "There were very intrigued by the unusual color."
The team used the spinach, beet and curry powders to achieve the greenish-blue color of the actual Statue of Liberty.
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