Writing for the blog for the first time, Stephen Li, student, chef, musician and fellow blogger!
Rooms full of Gingerbread houses welcomed us to the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Vancouver. They were lovingly and very skillfully constructed by Cooking Schools, Businesses, Charitable Foundations and by various lower mainland schools, both public and private. Loved the entries by Churchill and David Thompson, especially! But the first place award (although they all were winners) was titled simply "Waiting For Santa" and was a child's room and toy box containing everyone's most wanted gifts, past and present! It was the brainchild of Vancouver Community College's team and how lucky we are to have these masters graduating into our restaurants, bakeries, hotels, catering agencies and much more! Everyone was delighted to see royal icing, marzipan, rolled fondant, pastillage, chocolate modelling paste, rice krispies, smarties and candies of all sorts, and colours and trees and snow, and cabins and santas and dream houses and oh just go and see it to see the food and Christmas of your dreams! What attracts people to the Gingerbread Houses Display, every year, is not only that they want to see what can be created but also that they may remember making their own houses and tree decorations! Sweet Dreams for all!
