Deden Putra – Overnight New York

The Happiest, Merriest Holiday Decorations at New York City Hotels, 2021 Edition

December 24, 2021/in Hotels and Holidays/by Terry Trucco

Things aren’t quite normal yet, but New York City is back and so are its hotels, dressed to dazzle and lighting the way to a scintillating holiday season — inside and out (some of the cleverest decorations adorn building exteriors). Camera in hand, we captured 10 delectably decked halls, walls, even sidewalks at hotels all over Manhattan — and added a special guest property from California because who doesn’t love gingerbread houses?

Happy Holidays! Read more

Holiday Decorations that Look Good Enough to Eat at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills

December 18, 2019/in Hotels and Holidays, Hotels and the Arts/by Terry Trucco

We’re partial to holiday decorations displayed at New York City hotels. But this year we couldn’t resist including the edible art on view at the Waldorf Astoria Beverly Hills, a spirited creation with an unexpected link to New York City. Read more

Meet the Peninsula New York (Edible Version), the Ultimate Gingerbread Hotel

December 12, 2016/in Hotels and Holidays/by Terry Trucco

What can you do with 46 lbs. of butter, 38 lbs. of milk, 76 lbs. of honey, 46 lbs. of sugar, 5 lbs. of spices, 1 1/2 lbs. of baking soda and a whopping 145 lbs. of bread flour?

You can think about opening a bakery. You can spend the foreseeable future baking cookies. Or if you happen to be Deden Putra, Executive Pastry Chef at the Peninsula New York, you can create a five-star gingerbread hotel that stands six feet tall and smells as inviting as it looks. Read more

A Glamorous Parade of Easter Bonnets — In Chocolate! — At The Peninsula New York

April 3, 2015/in Hotels and Holidays/by Terry Trucco

Spring and its holidays are about new beginnings, and what’s more renewing than a new hat?

Three fetching Easter bonnets perch on a flower-garnished hat rack atop a table on the mezzanine landing at the Peninsula New York, located (aptly) on Fifth Avenue for all you fans of the Irving Berlin movie and song “Easter Parade.”

They look good enough to wear. But the twist is they’re good enough to eat, created from 25 lbs. of chocolate and 12 lbs. of sugar pastilage by Executive Pastry Chef Deden Putra and his able team. Read more

White Chocolate’s Not Just for Eating: Meet The Peninsula New York’s Snowpage Family

December 13, 2014/in Hotels and Holidays/by Terry Trucco

Once again The Peninsula New York has proved you don’t have to eat pastry to enjoy it.

The showpiece of the hotel’s wildly decorative holiday lobby is a Snowpage family — roly, poly papa, mama and baby — cooked up from 90 pounds of white chocolate along with fondant (five pounds), sugar (three pounds) and a sprinkling of gold dust. Read more

An Eiffel Tower Made from Macarons: The Peninsula New York Welcomes a Sister Hotel in Paris

July 9, 2014/in Hotel Food and Drink/by Terry Trucco

For those who keep track of these things, there are 36 replicas of the Eiffel Tower scattered throughout the world. This summer the number jumps to 37.

Number 37 is spectacular but, alas, temporary, as creations tend to be when they are made from macarons. And unlike Tokyo Tower, the Paris, Texas Eiffel and other towering homages to the 1889 Paris Exposition’s instant icon, the French cookie tower is indoors – in the upper lobby of the Peninsula New York hotel, to be precise. Read more

Hunting Down the Best Chocolate Easter Eggs at New York City Hotels

April 18, 2014/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels and Holidays/by Terry Trucco

This is shaking up to be the biggest year in memory for good eggs in New York.

First came the Fabrege Big Egg Hunt, which deposited 250 gigantic eggs decorated by artists, designers and bold-face names around town, including at hotels (it ends April 26). And as we zero in on Easter, hotel pastry chefs are proving, once again, that chocolate is a natural companion to the egg.

I always stop by The Peninsula New York when a holiday nears to see what’s new from executive pastry chef Deden Putra, who never lets a red-letter occasion go by without creating something witty, like life-size lollipop reindeer or a gigantic white chocolate snowman. Read more

Another Reason to Love the Holidays in New York: Meet The Peninsula’s White Chocolate “Snowpage”

December 16, 2013/in Hotels and Holidays/by Terry Trucco

He’s a chocolate lover’s dream – a child-size snowman concocted almost entirely from white chocolate (the carrot nose is marzipan). He greets all who enter The Peninsula hotel through early January. Read more

Is This The Biggest Chocolate Easter Egg in New York City?

March 21, 2013/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels and Holidays/by Terry Trucco

Who knows? But consider the jaw-drop vital statistics of the ultimate Easter egg on view at the Peninsula Hotel: three pastry chefs, 48 hours and 45 pounds of chocolate.

The result stands three feet tall and boasts enough hand-made candy flowers and butterflies to fill a small army of Easter baskets. Read more

Are The Peninsula Hotel’s Gigantic Reindeer Really Lollipops?

December 10, 2012/in Hotel Food and Drink, Hotels and Holidays/by Terry Trucco

Talk about eye candy. Perched atop a table near the concierge desk at the Peninsula hotel stand a big red sleigh and two bright-eyed reindeer, one with a red nose. Read more

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