Gingerbread Lane Explained

GingerBread Lane
Artist:Jon Lovitch
City:New York City
Philadelphia
Richmond, Virginia
Museum:Smithsonian Institution
New York Hall of Science
Capital Children's Museum
Year: -

GingerBread Lane is a non-profit seasonal display of a handmade gingerbread village prepared by chef Jon Lovitch.[1] He has made the display every year since 1994.[2] GingerBread Lane has been featured in the Smithsonian Institution, Richmond, Virginia, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and the New York Hall of Science.[3]

The display requires about nine months and 1,500 hours to complete.[1] [4] [5]

2013 Gingerbread Lane

The 2013 Gingerbread Lane display was exhibited at the New York Hall of Science and weighed 1.5 tons and covered 300 square feet.[6] The display included 135 residential and 22 commercial buildings made of gingerbread along with trees, signs and five two-foot tall nutcrackers.[7] The display was certified by Guinness World Records as the world's largest gingerbread village on November 22, 2013.[7] [8] [9]

Process

Jon Lovitch, a Kansas City, Missouri-born chef, prepares all the ingredients for the display in his apartment, which is located in the South Bronx area of New York City.[10] [11] He often works on the project in the evenings after returning from work at New York's Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge, where he is executive sous chef.[11]

Lovitch prepares gingerbread, icing and other materials for the display throughout the year and stores completed gingerbread structures in an empty bedroom in his apartment. He later assembles the village by hand at the exhibition site. The Gingerbread Lane display generally begins in November and lasts through early January.[12] [13] Lovitch gives away pieces of the gingerbread village to visitors of the display following the last day of the exhibition.[14]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gingerbread Lane In Good Taste At Station Square. CBS Pittsburgh. October 17, 2013.
  2. News: Chef crafts a 1.5 ton village of gingerbread, frosting and candy at the N.Y. Hall of Science . Lisa L. Colanego . November 18, 2013 . . November 21, 2013 .
  3. Web site: GingerBread Lane. October 17, 2013.
  4. Web site: Megan Guza. August 3, 2012. For gingerbread man, it's Christmas in August. TribLIVE News. October 17, 2013.
  5. Web site: A Chef Built The World's Largest Gingerbread Village In His Bronx Apartment. Business Insider. December 3, 2013. Madeline Stone. March 23, 2014.
  6. Web site: November 12, 2013 . New York Hall of Science to Unveil GingerBread Lane on Sunday . Brownstoner Queens . November 21, 2013.
  7. News: Queens Gingerbread Village Is World's Largest . The Wall Street Journal. December 13, 2013. February 24, 2014.
  8. Baker of World's Largest Edible Gingerbread Village Doesn't Really Want You to Eat It. Anita Hamilton. Time. December 2, 2013. February 24, 2014.
  9. News: Koch baut größtes Lebkuchendorf der Welt. Die Welt. December 9, 2013. March 23, 2014.
  10. News: Thinking outside the box D.C. Chef's creations no bite-size bonbons . Denise Barnes . . February 15, 2000.
  11. News: From a Bronx Apartment's Oven, a Gingerbread Colossus Rises in Queens. Corey Kilgannon. The New York Times. November 26, 2013. February 24, 2014.
  12. Web site: AmyJo Brown. December 12, 2012. Sweet City: Gingerbread Lane is product of chef's year-long passion. Pittsburgh City Paper. October 17, 2013.
  13. Web site: Jill King Greenwood. January 15, 2011. Missouri last stop for Pittsburgh gingerbread train station. TribLIVE News. October 17, 2013.
  14. News: Sharing the spoils of Gingerbread Lane. Lisa L. Colangelo. Daily News. January 13, 2014. February 24, 2014.