Gingerbread house artist gets back to work New Year s Day
Jon Lovitch builds gingerbread houses full time and by himself.
New York - In 1993, Jon Lovitch then a chef at a hotel in Kansas City entered a gingerbread house-making competition and lost. Really kind of angry about it, he said nearly three decades later.
Unable to rinse away that sugary taste of defeat, Lovitch resolved to create his own gingerbread village the following year. A lot of people were taking pictures of it, he said. And back in 1994, taking a picture was a real big commitment.
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