GingerBread Lane is a
non-profit
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seasonal
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display of a handmade
gingerbread village prepared by chef Jon Lovitch.
He has made the display every year since 1994.
GingerBread Lane has been featured in the
Smithsonian Institution
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,
Richmond, Virginia,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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, and the
New York Hall of Science
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.
The display requires about nine months and 1,500 hours to complete.
2013 Gingerbread Lane
The 2013 Gingerbread Lane display was exhibited at the
New York Hall of Science
The New York Hall of Science, also known as NYSCI, is a science museum located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens, in the section of the park that is in Corona. It occupies one of the few remaining structures fr ...
and weighed 1.5 tons and covered 300 square feet.
The display included 135 residential and 22 commercial buildings made of gingerbread along with trees, signs and five two-foot tall nutcrackers.
The display was certified by
Guinness World Records
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as the world's largest gingerbread village on November 22, 2013.
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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.[
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.]
See also
* New York Hall of Science
The New York Hall of Science, also known as NYSCI, is a science museum located in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park in the New York City borough of Queens, in the section of the park that is in Corona. It occupies one of the few remaining structures fr ...
References
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External links
CBS New York video reportGuinness World Records citation
Non-profit organizations based in the United States
Decorative arts
New York Hall of Science