I might not bake gingerbread but the gingerbrea d house and family is always one of my fave features at the annual Laguna Beach Boat parade :)…
While gingerbread is widely considered to be a “European invention” (despite the fact that ginger does not originate from nor grow there) with deeper roots in ancient Greek and Egyptian traditions, In Colonial America, particularly in Virginia, highly skilled enslaved cooks and bakers were the primary makers of complex and elaborate dishes, including pastries and things like gingerbread - cakes, houses etc. beautifully decorated for the entertaining tables of their enslavers….
👆🏽 As a food & drink historian with the focus area that i have, gingerbread shows up in text and books (as indicated in the carousel below) as it relates to research I’ve done and continue to do on Colonial American cookery, Chesapeake Bay plantation cookery, the culinary legacy of the iconic American chef, Edna Lewis, and so on. Interestingly it was also the featured graphic on the cover of the first Food & Wine magazine article i contributed to recently. And it was the featured desert that Chef Omar included in MOVAD’s first virtual event, “Harlem Rent Party “ that i created the cocktail for…
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