Dozens of competitors risked their necks last Monday for a shot at glory in one of Britain's most barmy annual events — chasing a rolling wheel of cheese down a steep hill.
Around 3,000 spectators gathered in the rain to roar on the cheese-chasing daredevils who stumbled and tumbled down Cooper's Hill in Brockworth, southwest England.
They raced for 200m down the dangerously steep slope after the wheel-shaped Double Gloucester.
PHOTO: AP
The photos show Jemima Bullock, 33, from Wellington, New Zealand. She won the ladies' race. You can see the cheese she was chasing in the photo on the right.
"It was a bit slippy out there but I think that actually helped. I guess you've got to be a bit mad to do this," she said as she nursed her bloodied knee.
While the winner keeps the cheese, the person in second place gets 10 pounds (NT$670). The person in third place gets a five-pound note (NT$325).
PHOTO: AP
The unusual event is thought to have its roots in a festival to celebrate the return of spring.(Catherine Thomas, staff writer with AFP)
上週一,一群競爭者在英國最怪異的年度盛事中,因爭奪榮耀而差點摔斷脖子︰全為了追逐滾落陡坡的輪狀乳酪。
在英格蘭西南方的布羅克沃思,約三千名觀眾冒著雨,替追趕乳酪而一路跌跌撞撞跑下庫柏丘的參賽者加油歡呼。
參賽者追隨滾輪狀的雙層格洛斯特乳酪,爭相跑下兩百公尺高的危險陡坡。
這兩張照片是來自紐西蘭威靈頓的三十三歲女子潔米瑪.布拉克,她奪下了女子組大賽冠軍。你可以在右方照片看見她所追趕的乳酪。
她一邊照顧自己流血的膝蓋一邊說︰「那裡有點滑,但我想這有幫助。我猜要有點瘋狂才能這樣做。」
冠軍可以抱走乳酪,亞軍可以獲得十英鎊(新台幣六百七十元)獎金,季軍則可得到五英鎊(新台幣三百二十五元)。
一般認為,這項不同凡響的活動應該是起源於歡慶春回大地的節日。 (翻譯︰賴美君)
Rice is an essential ingredient in Taiwanese cuisine. Many foods are made of rice, adding more variety to our cooking, such as rice cake, or “gui.” Wagui is made by steaming rice flour batter in a bowl. The term “gui” refers to a type of food made from rice, while “wa” refers to a bowl. The pronunciation of “gui” in Taiwanese Hokkien is similar to the word for “nobility” in Chinese, so it is common for people to prepare various types of gui, including wagui, as offerings to the gods or ancestors,. 米是台灣重要的主食,用米製成的食品十分多元,豐富我們的飲食,如米做成的「粿」。粿的意思是米做成的糕點,碗粿是將在來米漿倒入碗中蒸熟,因而得名。粿因為音同「貴」,因此碗粿等粿食常用作供品祭拜神明和祖先。 nobility (n.) 高貴,高尚;貴族 offering (n.) 供品 While Taiwan may not be
It’s no secret that Japanese people have a deep affection for noodles. Like in the rest of East Asia, noodles are an important staple food, second only to rice. Japanese people have enjoyed noodles for over 1,000 years. The first noodles came from China and were introduced around 800 CE. As time passed, noodles in Japan not only became widespread but also developed some unique Japanese characteristics. The three most popular types of noodles in Japan are ramen, soba, and udon. Ramen, typically made from wheat flour, is usually thin and firm. The dough is kneaded and left to
On Tuesday last week, the flame for this summer’s Paris Olympics was lit at the birthplace of the ancient Olympic Games in southern Greece in a meticulously choreographed ceremony. It will then be carried through Greece for more than 5,000km before being handed over to French organizers at the Athens venue used for the first modern Olympics in 1896. The pageantry at Olympia has been an essential part of every Olympics for nearly 90 years since the Games in Berlin. It’s meant to provide an ineluctable link between the modern event and the ancient Greek original on which it was initially modelled. Once
Drive-through (or drive-thru) restaurants provide people with the immense convenience of being able to purchase and pick up meals without needing to leave their vehicles. These restaurants have been around for decades, and their success has spawned a number of equally handy services. The drive-through concept originated with the drive-in restaurant, the first of which was established in the US in 1921. Patrons would order and eat the food that was delivered to their cars by workers called “carhops.” Ten years later, a drive-through service was introduced, but it was not until 1947 that the first exclusively drive-through restaurant opened its