GingerBread Lane | |
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Artist | Jon Lovitch |
Year | 1994 | –
Location |
Smithsonian Institution New York Hall of Science Capital Children's Museum, New York City Philadelphia Richmond, Virginia |
Website |
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, Pennsylvania, and the New York Hall of Science. [3]
The display requires about nine months and 1,500 hours to complete. [1] [4] [5]
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]
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.[ citation needed] 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]
GingerBread Lane | |
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Artist | Jon Lovitch |
Year | 1994 | –
Location |
Smithsonian Institution New York Hall of Science Capital Children's Museum, New York City Philadelphia Richmond, Virginia |
Website |
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, Pennsylvania, and the New York Hall of Science. [3]
The display requires about nine months and 1,500 hours to complete. [1] [4] [5]
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]
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.[ citation needed] 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]