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With Christmas quickly approaching,
sights, sounds and smells of the season
warm the cooling winter air and
brighten dark nights. Among the colorful
lights and cheery decorations,
gingerbread houses have always
stood out as being (almost) too ornamental
to justify eating.
November through January and can
be publicly viewed (for free) Sunday
through Thursday from 9am to 9pm.
Hotel, restaurant and spa guests also
have access to the viewing area 24
hours a day, 7 days a week. So although
the house (or horse, or toy
box) must be 100% edible and 75%
gingerbread, it must be able to survive
months of showmanship.
Adorned with succulent gumdrops
and candies atop rough German-style
gingerbread, these houses bear no
direct relation to any other Christmas
celebration, despite being a tradition
in their own right for hundreds of
years. As a result, they have a rather
Today, there’s no better place to see
this architectural ingenuity showcased
than at the National Gingerbread
House Competition in Asheville,
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the hotel from could be used for religious ceremoni-
Gingerbread patterns and designs
al purposes. Eventually, an Armenian
monk brought it to Europe in 992.
By this period, gingerbread baking
was already quite sophisticated, and
specially made molds were used to
create images of saints and other
important religious characters out of
the bread.
The primary use of gingerbread continued
to serve a religious purpose
through to the 17th century, when
it fi nally became associated with
Christmas holidays. As the creation of
religious icons — even in edible forms
— was seen as a sacred and prestigious
practice,
European royalty of the time only permitted
gingerbread to be prepared by
specially trained gingerbread guild
members except during Christmas
and Easter. As a result, most people
could only enjoy the sweet dessert
during this time of the year.
continued to become increasing detailed
and intricate. Russian gingerbread
makers began crafting some
of the fi rst gingerbread men and
women. These breads often took
shapes similar to matryoshka dolls
or kolobok, a round, Russian gingerbread
man.
Even still, the “house” concept wasn’t
introduced until 200 years later
through the Brothers’ Grimm tale of
Hansel and Gretel. The tale’s witchy
ginger dwelling was quickly adapted
to fi t a more festive role, with a merry
winter wonderland-esque cottage
theme.
These new houses adopted the German
style of bread, having a German
origin and taking advantage of the
harder consistency.
This provides enough support to be
able to design taller and more fanciful
structures. With gingerbread’s
long history of being used as a decorative
edible substance, gingerbread
house-making quickly became an
art.
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