Gingerbread Lane

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, PA, and the New York Hall of Science.[3]

GingerBread Lane
ArtistJon Lovitch
Year1994 (1994)–
LocationSmithsonian Institution
New York Hall of Science
Capital Children's Museum, New York City
Philadelphia
Richmond, Virginia
Websitegingerbread-lane.org

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]

See also

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