Photo credit: Courtesy of The Ritz Carlton
There’s lots of Gingerbread going around Washington this week from The Ritz Carlton to The White House.
While guests at the luxury hotel enjoyed lots of sugar and spice, we’re not sure about how things went at The White House Christmas soiree……...everyone was too busy falling off a cliff to enjoy the replica of 1600 Pennsylvania created by Executive Pastry Chef Bill Yosses.
Photo credit: Courtesy of The White House
The Ritz Carlton event was hosted by Elizabeth Mullins, Vice President and General Manager, where an elaborate life-size gingerbread house was created by the hotel’s pastry team and holiday rooms were filled with sugar canes, cookies and lots of other red and white striped treats.
Least you have forgotten or never knew in the first place, Gingerbread has been baked in Europe since the eleventh century and modernized in the nineteenth century “when the Grimm brothers collected volumes of German fairy tales and found one about Hansel and Gretel, two children who, abandoned in the woods by penniless parents, discovered a house made of bread, cake and candies.” Ultimate Gingerbread. As for Congress? “Let them eat cake.!”
