Well for goodness sakes, look who's playing with her food again. It's one Sarah Baumann. Baumann is the Jungle Jim's ad exec who doubles as a cheese sculptor — takes a biiig block of cheddar and carves, well, cheesy art. Like the 6-foot 'gator she did for a University of Florida football game. Or the busts of broadcasters Howie Long, Terry Bradshaw and James Brown for a Super Bowl. Oh, and Jay Leno for the Tonight Show.

        Now she's in a new medium: Cookies, brownies, graham crackers, frosting, neon sprinkles.

Robbie the Robot. | ZOOM |

        Seems Oscar Mayer is launching Lunchables Fun Snacks, a line of do-it-yourself deserts — brownie with a compartment full of frosting and another full of sprinkles, s'mores with graham crackers, marshmallow goo and chocolate, that sort of thing.

        They're launching it with a Build Your Own Fun contest that invites kids to build something with the snacks, name it, photograph it and send it in for a chance at a $10,000 scholarship. Details are on www.lunchables.com.

        So to get the ball rolling, Mayer asked Baumann to come up with four sculptures.

        Which she's now doing: 4-foot Robbie the Robot, with chocolate chip toenails, is finished. Yet to come is a race car to be shown in Indianapolis, a Ferris wheel for Chicago's Navy Pier, and a ball player for Des Moines and Raleigh-Durham. Robbie goes on national tour (Cincinnati is not a stop) any day now.

        In the meantime, Baumann says, “All-night radio and I are getting to be good friends. I'm also working on a large paddle wheel sculpted from cheese that needs to be done soon, and I think I'm going to do Willie Nelson for a Florida radio station.”

        Seen around town: It's a double header this, one a diversity expert — heaven knows we need it — and one a famous gardener ...

        • Is that Oprah squeeze Stedman Graham wondering around Sharonville today?

        Yep. He's at the Sharonville Convention Center for a Diversity Leadership conference thrown by the Greater Cincinnati Human Resources Association, and danged if they aren't making him work.

        Graham, CEO of S. Graham & Associates, an outfit that creates corporate training and leadership programs, will do a workshop called “You Can Make it Happen,” then present awards to corporations that excelled in diversity in the past year.

        • Meanwhile, gardening queen Susie Coelho, the former host of HBO Entertainment News who now hosts HGTV's Surprise Gardener, is all over town the next couple of days.

        Officially, she's here for Art in Bloom, the Cincinnati Art Museum show of 62 floral arrangements interpreting various artworks at the museum.

        Unofficially, she's out in Indian Hill touring Jay and Beth Karp's garden, making appearances at several Jones the Florist stores, doing an urban garden makeover for CAM marketing director Jackie Reau and attending a gala that opens the show.

        Oh yeah, almost forgot: She's also one of the late Sonny Bono's ex-wives.

        Past columns at Enquirer.com/columns/knip

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