In Sala Consilina, a small town near Salerno, a team of mozzarella masters spent a significant portion of their Sunday on 7 October crafting the world’s largest mozzarella.
Three 70 meter coils of mozzarella were twisted together to create a braid that was 56.5 meters long and 30 centimeters in diameter. The cheesy effort won the artisans a place in the Guinness Book of World Records, for they topped their own 2006 record by adding 13.7 meters to the length of this year’s mozzarella.
Following the Italian rule that says that mozzarella should be eaten on the day it is made, the super-mozza was consumed a clamoring crowd of fans who had turned out to watch the making of cheese history.
