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	Double Gloucester cheese - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Double Gloucester cheese is a cheese created using a mixture of morning and evening milk, hence the name, Double Gloucester.
		Gloucester cheeses were at one time made only with the milk from Gloucester cows, which are now almost extinct.
		Double Gloucester cheese is also used for cheese rolling on Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, every spring, a dangerous sport.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gloucester_cheese (236 words)

	Cooper's Hill Cheese-Rolling and Wake - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake is an annual event held in May at Cooper's Hill near Gloucester.
		In theory, competitors are aiming to catch the cheese, but since it has a second's head start and can reach immense speeds (enough to knock over and injure a spectator in 1997), this rarely occurs.
		Due to the steepness and uneven surface of the hill there are usually a number of injuries, ranging from sprained ankles to broken bones and concussion.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Cheese_rolling (415 words)

	Contestants break bones chasing cheese - Boston.com - Odds & ends - News
		Contestants in a traditional British cheese rolling competition broke bones and took skin off knees and elbows Monday in their pursuit of a giant piece of cheese down a steep hill.
		Teenager Chris Anderson, who won one of four cheese rolling races contested Monday, was taken to hospital on a stretcher, clutching his winning slab of cheese to his chest.
		Chris Anderson, 17, clasps his Double Gloucester cheese to his chest as he waits to be taken away on a stretcher, suffering a sprained ankle, after claiming first prize in one of the races in the ancient daredevil sport of cheese rolling at Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, England, Monday, May 30, 2005.
	www.boston.com /news/odd/articles/2005/05/30/contestants_break_bones_chasing_cheese (356 words)

	CNN - Cheese rolling festival takes dangerous turn - May 27, 1997
		NEAR GLOUCESTER, England (CNN) -- The Cooper's Hill cheese rolling contest is an age-old event, where specially-made Double Gloucester cheeses -- weighing seven pounds and measuring a foot in diameter -- are hurled from the hilltop, to be chased and retrieved by runners waiting below.
		Runners are supposed to chase the cheeses to the bottom of the very steep hill, with the first one over the finish line allowed to keep the cheese as a prize.
		The origins of the cheese race are unclear, but it's believed to have started several hundred years ago, possibly as a pagan festival to celebrate summer.
	www.cnn.com /WORLD/9705/27/fringe/cheese.rolling (315 words)

	Cheese rolling -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cheese rolling is an annual event held in May at (Click link for more info and facts about Cooper's Hill) Cooper's Hill near (A city in southwestern England in Gloucestershire on the Severn) Gloucester.
		Competitors race down the hill after a (A smooth firm mild orange-red cheese) Double Gloucester (A solid food prepared from the pressed curd of milk) cheese, and the first person over the line wins the cheese.
		Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling has been summarized as "twenty young men chase a cheese off a cliff and tumble 200 yards to the bottom, where they are scraped up by paramedics and packed off to hospital".
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/C/Ch/Cheese_rolling.htm (199 words)

	Frank's Recipes! Buffalo Mozzarella Roll (appetizer)
		Place the packing milk and the mozzarella cheese balls into a large bowl on top of a pan of simmering water (double boiler) to heat (melt/soften).
		When the cheese is soft and there are no hard clumps pour off as much milk as possible, and pour the cheese into the parchment lined jelly roll pan.
		Because there is some concern about having to work fast when rolling the cheese, I put the jelly roll pan into a 200F oven while the cheese was melting, so when I rolled it out, it wasn't on a cold pan.
	www.hostultra.com /~recipes/bison/bufmozrol.html (611 words)

	Cheese Rolling Event, Coopers Hill. Special events in London and Britain
		The annual cheese rolling races at Cooper's Hill must rank amongst the strangest of England's weird and wonderful traditions.
		Cheese rolling's origins are hazy to say the least.
		Wherever it's origins it's hard to argue that cheese rolling is a sport for the outrageously courageous or at least the dangerously demented.
	www.astral-travels.com /cheese_rolling.htm (598 words)

	JS Online: Don't worry, judges don't eat all the cheese
		Judges at the United States Championship Cheese Contest check the texture by rolling the cheese in their fingers.
		Twelve judges - cheese experts from around the country - winnowed the field of about 650 cheeses from 21 states to one lone champion, a unique cheese likened to a French-style Gruyere and made by a Dodgeville dairy farmer-turned-cheesemaker.
		Cheese classes were judged in a deliberate order, from mild to strong in flavor.
	www.jsonline.com /entree/cooking/mar03/126376.asp?format=print (808 words)

	True Brits - Cheese Rolling Trivia
		By the time they hit the safety net at the bottom of the 250-yard race course, the cheese wheels are spiralling unpredictably at up to 70 miles an hour.
		No one has ever been killed at the cheese roll, though there is an apocryphal story about a runner dropping dead at the end of a race centuries ago.
		Four adults and four children were zapped by lightning when a sudden thunderstorm interrupted the 1982 cheese roll.
	www.truebrits.tv /cheese_trivia.html (443 words)

	Northern Earth - Here Comes The Sun
		Past issues of Northern Earth have brought attention to the rolling sun phenomenon, in which the sun is seen to rise or set along the side of a hill or mountain when viewed from a prehistoric monument.
		Due to the number of injuries sustained by participants in 1997, the official cheese rolling was cancelled the following year; however, a private rolling of the cheese took place on the morning to maintain continuity and the public event was reinstated in 1999.
		Cheese rolling was also known, from at least 1776, at Uffington, in connection with the scouring of the White Horse.
	www.northernearth.co.uk /83sun.htm (1106 words)

	Useful tips: Cheese Rolling at Coopers Hill
		The Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake is primarily an event for the residents of Gloucestershire.
		The History of the Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake: The precise history of this ancient event is unclear.
		Ok, so entering in the Cheese Rolling won't be too much of a hammering on your wallet, but remember to factor in the cost of being injured, time off work...
	www.doctordanger.com /other/CheeseRoll.htm (1485 words)

	Stag Weekend Cheese Rolling Activities. Outstanding Cheese Rolling Experiences For Stags... Prepare To Party! - StagWeb (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cheese Rolling is when the Double Gloucester cheese weighing seven pounds, measuring three inches thick and nine inches in diameter is thrown down the perilous Coopers hill and those taking part (2-20) then fearlessly(they say!) throw themselves down after it.
		cheese rolling format: there are three men's races and one for women 'The Master of Ceremonies' escorts an invited guest to the start line and helps him (or her) to sit on the precipitous slope, holding a 7-8lb.
		It may sound simple but the 250-yard race hill is extremely challenging to even the most supple cheese rollers, bums and ankles take a real battering as they pummell down, negotiating the very steep drops, It then suddenly flattens out at the bottom and often leads to a near collision with the waiting fence.
	www.stagweb.co.uk /activities/cheeserolling.asp (407 words)

	Rolling Cheeses
		For cheese rollers everywhere, May Day means the chance to hurl your cheese from the hilltops and risk life and limb chasing it through the capital of cheese rolling, Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire.
		Cheese rolling may have evolved from the Romans tendency for hurling missiles down slopes.
		Cheese rollers simply invented a wooden cheese replica instead, placing a piece of cheese inside for good measure.
	www.wanadoo.co.uk /cheeses (216 words)

	DISENO: cheese rolling
		Every year in the county of Glostershire, England at Cooper's hill around 5,000 people from all over the world gather for the cheese roll.
		as mid-day approaches and the crowd begin to chant 'Roll the cheese!' and the competitors run, tumble, roll and slide down the hill after the cheese in 4 separate down-hill races.
		Every year there are a few casualties, usualy twisted ankles, broken limbs and bumps and bruises.
	www.diseno-art.com /encyclopedia/things_to_do/cheese_rolling.html (98 words)

	BBC - Gloucestershire - Entertainment - Chasing the cheese in 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cheese Rolling is nothing if not an equal opportunities event and women get the chance to chase down that cheese too.
		Cheese rolling is a tradition that has its roots in the ancient history of our country - it's something that seems to represent the British identity.
		And cheese, and to a lesser extent rolling.
	www.html2text.com /HTML2Text/text802337+5n94/gloucestershire/content/articles/2005/05/30/cheese_rolling_2005_feature.shtml (2364 words)

	BBC - Gloucestershire - Features - Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling Races (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Of all Britain's weird and wonderful customs and traditions, the annual cheese rolling races at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire must be among the strangest - and certainly the most spectacular.
		A guest 'roller' releases the cheese at his command: "One to be ready, two to be steady, three to prepare - and FOUR to be off".
		One spectator had to be taken to hospital with head injuries after trying to dodge a bouncing cheese and toppling down the hillside himself.
	www.softdata.co.uk /cgi-bin/search/go.cgi?id=4364 (1435 words)

	Festivals.com - Celebrating the World of Festivals and Events (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Cheese rolling is sort of the high spot of the year," laughs Reverend Richard Longfoot, the village's rector and founder of one-time championship cheese-rolling team the Holy Rollers.
		Olive Main, of the Stilton Community Association, explains that the rules of the rolling are few: "Teams of four, in bizarre costumes, roll the cheese along the 50-yard course.
		As lighthearted (and decidedly wacky) as the annual cheese rolling may be, it sprang from a serious concern.
	www.festivals.com /04-april/cheese (914 words)

	Wells Bombardier: Supporting St George's Day (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The rules of the competition are simple, teams must be single-sex and each member has to roll the cheese at least once during its flight along the course.
		The format of the event is a knockout competition with quarters, semis and a final; the last roll is between the men's and ladies champions to find the champion of champions.
		Cheese rolling is an annual event in Stilton, which dates back to 1950 and usually takes place every Mayday.
	www.bombardier.co.uk /eternaleng_detail.php?id=342 (517 words)

	BBC News \| UK \| Cheese roll goes down well (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The cheese race, down Cooper's Hill, in Gloucestershire, last took place in 1997 - when 33 competitors had to be treated by paramedics.
		Cheese rolling can be traced back at least 200 years and many local people believe it has its origins in Roman times.
		Last year, despite the ban, die-hard enthusiasts rolled one cheese down the hill at 6am to keep the tradition unbroken.
	www40.thny.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/uk/356829.stm (329 words)

	Slow Travel Italy - Easter Cheese Rolling in Panicale, Umbria
		The cheese rolls, the crowd runs along side of it and someone marks where it wobbles to a stop with chalk on the street.
		Being cheese, it is a bit hard to control and the pecorino often wheels off the course and starts bouncing down the hillside, through the olives, local officials in hot pursuit.
		Long before our first outdoor cheese race had concluded, the crowd had heard the band “music” off in the piazza and had wandered that direction for the milling about, the free wine and free hard boiled eggs being served by the aptly named Pro Loco committee.
	www.slowtrav.com /Italy/umbria/sv_cheese_rolling.htm (504 words)

	True Brits - Cheese Rolling
		If you've never seen it, the ancient Gloucestershire tradition doesn't sound that daunting: a cheese is flung down a hill, and dozens of men chase it.
		Initially, I envisaged a wheel of cheese trundling down a long, grassy slope at a leisurely pace.
		"That's gotta be a bit of a whack," says a cheese chaser whose mother was hit in the leg by a hurtling cheese.
	www.truebrits.tv /cheese_rolling.html (354 words)

	Photo Gallery :: Stilton, Peterborough, and Cambridge
		Before the cheese rolling main event, there was a performance by some guys dressed up like knights from the middle ages.
		Teams competed to be the fastest to roll a cheese down the slope to the bottom.
		The fastest teams were able to roll the cheese on a straight and true path from the top to bottom.
	www.ischo.com /gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=album02 (221 words)

	THIS IS FINDON VILLAGE - Findon Cheese Rolling (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Cheese rolling in Findon has always been rather a mystery to me, so I was interested to hear from John Pelling that on the day of the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, he was watching the old custom of Cheese Rolling in the village.
		Cheeses were rolled downhill and the women chased after them, if they caught one they could take it home.
		Mrs Brotherhood and Mrs Luther each won a cheese some people in the village may be able to add to this, I never had a camera.
	www.findonvillage.com /0786_findon_cheese_rolling.htm (413 words)

	HERE COMES THE SUN
		The rolling sun effect was first noted by Gerry Bracken at Croagh Patrick on the west coast of Ireland, where it can be seen when viewed from a natural rock outcrop decorated with cup and ring markings(1).
		There is evidence that the rolling sun effect can likewise be observed to occur at significant times in the solar year (5).
		The axis of the middle stone in the row of three standing stones is aligned to the most northerly peak of the Paps mountains on the isle of Jura, where the sun sets along the slope of the mountainside (8).
	www.northernearth.co.uk /83/sun.htm (1103 words)

	Cheese Rolling with DoctorDanger.com
		The rules of the game are simple, you show up, you chase cheese off a cliff, you tumble for a couple hundred yards, then you go to either the pub or the local hospital.
		The Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling and Wake is primarily an event for the residents living near Brockworth, Gloucestershire.
		The Coopers Hill Cheese Rolling event did not take place in 2003 because the rescue team ('Rapid UK' - who supply support for injured runners on the hill) were called away at short notice to assist with the search and rescue efforts following the severe earthquakes in Algeria and Peru.
	www.doctordanger.com /other/Cheese.htm (484 words)

	BBC - Gloucestershire - Entertainment
		Cheese rolling Loads of great pictures from this year's cheese rolling sent in by BBC Gloucestershire users...
		An injured cheese rolling participant Three people have been hurt chasing a giant cheese down a steep slope at the 2005 event.
		Dione Carter, winner of the 2004 women's race Competitors and spectators from across the globe were at the 2004 Cooper's Hill Cheese Rolling.
	www.html2text.com /HTML2Text/text802337+5n94/gloucestershire/entertainment/festivals/cheese_rolling/index.shtml (213 words)

	Battered and bloody...from cheese wacky news - Rap Basement Message Board
		In all, 21 people were hurt during Friday's annual cheese rolling race at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, central England, where competitors pelt recklessly down a steep slope in pursuit of a 71 pound (32 kilogramme) cheese.
		Each of the four races saw around 20 men and women run -- and then often roll or somersault -- headlong down the hill in pursuit of the double Gloucester cheese, with many walking away bruised and bleeding.
		In all, 21 people were hurt during Friday's annual cheese rolling race at Cooper's Hill in Gloucestershire, central England, where competitors pelt recklessly down a steep slope in pursuit of a 71 pound (32 kilogramme) cheese.(AFP/File)
	www.d12world.com /board/showthread.php?t=98466 (317 words)

	Scotsman.com News - Weird, odd and quirky stories - Only three hurt in dash to be the big cheese (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		DOZENS of people risked life and limb yesterday as they chased a giant cheese down a steep slope, as part of a bizarre traditional contest.
		More than 4,000 spectators flocked to the odd event, which has been celebrated for centuries and is thought to have its roots in a heathen festival to celebrate the return of spring.
		Chris, 17, was taken to hospital with his prize cheese clasped to his chest.
	news.scotsman.com /topics.cfm?tid=609&id=593842005 (559 words)

	The Cheese Diaries
		It makes a range of cheeses (many to ancient receipes such as Caboc which is said to be made from a receipe used in the Sixteenth Century by a family ancestor Mariota de Ile, daughter of The MacDonald, Lord of the Isles).
		Like the cheese, the label is not afraid to make a statement, though some may find that statement too quaint or ridiculous, and not suitable for a cheese of that caliber.
		The cheese is in the bonded warehouse, a privately owned warehouse licensed by the US Customs office to hold imported goods until they clear customs and the FDA.
	www.cheesediaries.com (9421 words)

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