I happened to tune in to the Food Channel tonight and saw a great program on the Grove Park Inn’s Annual Gingerbread Contest. As I watched these people constructing these amazingly ornate structures out of candy and confections alone, I had to wonder: Is gingerbread as art just a cruel joke? There is no doubt in my mind that the structures I saw built tonight were art. I even watched as one woman spent a good deal of time sculpting a perfect, tiny teapot out of almond paste to place on the similarly perfect and tiny stove in her gingerbread … Continue reading →