GingerBread Lane is a

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display of a handmade

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village prepared by chef Jon Lovitch. He has made the display every year since 1994. GingerBread Lane has been featured in the

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, and the

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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

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

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as the world's largest gingerbread village on November 22, 2013.

Process

Jon Lovitch, a Kansas City, Missouri-born chef, prepares all the ingredients for the display in his apartment, which is located in the

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area of New York City. 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. 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. Lovitch gives away pieces of the gingerbread village to visitors of the display following the last day of the exhibition.

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CBS New York video reportGuinness World Records citation
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2013 Gingerbread Lane

Process

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