No Cookie Cutter Operation at These Gingerbread Events
California Gingerbread
Gingerbread is the hot, new medium for artists to show what their made of. It’s a field where half-baked ideas don’t cut it. From the $500 admission Gingerbread City in San Diego, to lavish displays such as the enormous 22 feet high by 23 feet wide Gingerbread House you can walk through at Fairmont San Francisco (center-top photo), you’d never believe gingerbread could offer so much entertainment.
One of the grandest opportunities to view gingerbread art takes place each year in Sausalito where the month-long Sausalito Chamber Gingerbread House Tour of businesses throughout the city includes traditional to quirky, and even avante garde. One window display in a couture shop last year included a skirt made of a gingerbread house, while a nearby scene show Muir Woods (right photos).
A place where Halloween and Christmas collide provides unexpected gingerbread surprise at Disneyland’s Haunted Mansion (left photo).
Think gingerbread is limited to the talents of adults? You should check out Discovery Science Center’s contest at the annual Science of Gingerbread festival in Santa Ana and Los Angeles. Youngsters get behind-the-scenes learning about what gingerbread is and how it comes into being. Some of the fantastic gingerbread designs (center-bottom photo) make us wonder if parents might be helping. Nah….
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