{"id":118816,"date":"2024-12-14T18:33:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-14T18:33:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/meet-the-man-behind-the-worlds-largest-gingerbread-village-now-on-display-in-nyc-cbs-new-york\/"},"modified":"2024-12-14T18:33:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T18:33:28","slug":"meet-the-man-behind-the-worlds-largest-gingerbread-village-now-on-display-in-nyc-cbs-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/meet-the-man-behind-the-worlds-largest-gingerbread-village-now-on-display-in-nyc-cbs-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Meet the man behind the world&#039;s largest gingerbread village, now on display in NYC &#8211; CBS New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watch CBS News<br \/>     By                                                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/Elle-McLogan\/\" class=\"byline__author__link\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Elle McLogan<\/a>               <br \/>           <time datetime=\"2024-12-13T19:15:40-0500\">December 13, 2024 \/ 7:15 PM EST<\/time>           \/ CBS New York         <br \/><strong>NEW YORK<\/strong> &mdash; The Guinness World Record holder for the largest gingerbread village is Gingerbread Lane, now on display at the Shops at Columbus Circle, and it&#8217;s all the work of one dedicated Queens artist.<br \/>CBS News New York&#8217;s Elle McLogan got a look behind the scenes to see how the holiday magic comes to life.<br \/>&#8220;I work in three mediums: icing and gingerbread and candy,&#8221; Gingerbread Lane creator Jon Lovitch said.<br \/>At his home basement studio in Forest Hills, cracked and damaged gingerbread is on the operating table, including a miniature nutcracker that lost a foot.<br \/>&#8220;But for the most part, the exhibits hold up pretty good,&#8221; he said.<br \/>Gingerbread Lane features a miniature New York taxi, a newsstand and a subway car. &nbsp;<br \/>&#8220;And I don&#8217;t go for perfection. I try to create a scene,&#8221; he said.<br \/>The Missouri native is a former fine-dining executive chef, whose lifelong love of Christmas inspired a career change. He&#8217;s now a full-time gingerbread man.<br \/>He bakes the gingerbread himself with brown sugar, ginger and cinnamon. He estimates he has baked a combined 25,000 pounds of gingerbread in his career.<br \/>In the weeks before Christmas, he&#8217;s already beginning construction on next year&#8217;s gingerbread.<br \/>&#8220;People really, really do like it,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s the detail, and it&#8217;s the ability to try to recreate the outer world in an edible, whimsical, winter wonderland-type fashion.&#8221;<br \/>For Lovitch, seeing guests charmed and intrigued is worth the year-round effort.<br \/>&#8220;That&#8217;s just a great feeling,&#8221; he said.<br \/><em>You can email Elle with Queens story ideas by&nbsp;<a href=\"mailto:queenstip@cbs.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">CLICKING HERE<\/a>.<\/em><br \/>Elle McLogan joined CBS News New York in September 2017 as a digital reporter for CBSNewYork.com.<br \/>       <small>&copy; 2024 CBS Broadcasting Inc. All Rights Reserved.<\/small>     <br \/>&copy;2024 CBS Broadcasting Inc. 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