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Terry Trucco

And They Smell Great, Too – Le Parker Meridien’s Ultimate Gingerbread Houses

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"NYC Street Scene: the Holiday Bustle" by Butterfly Bakery.

“NYC Street Scene: the Holiday Bustle” by Butterfly Bakery.

The Gingerbread Extravaganza – the annual line-up of holiday sweet shacks at Le Parker Meridien – is among my favorite New York hotel traditions.

For the last five years, the hotel has invited local bakeries, restaurants and caterers to cook up the ultimate gingerbread creation built around a theme for display in the hotel’s mirror-lined 56th Street atrium. You can’t touch (or nibble) – the edible masterpieces are encased in Plexiglas boxes – but you can look at a line-up of clever constructions worthy of a nod from Cake Boss – or Gretel. Read more

Terry Trucco

Yum — Summer Restaurant Week Returns with $38 Price Fixe Dinners and $25 Lunches

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Summer in the city doesn’t seem like summer without NYC Restaurant Week, now in its 11th year. Read more

Terry Trucco

Holiday Gingerbread Creations at Le Parker Meridien That Look Too Good To Eat

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Honest Abe, the gingerbread version.

Who needs bricks and mortar – or limestone and chisels – when you’ve got gingerbread? Or to rephrase, ever wondered what the Lincoln Memorial, Kyoto’s Toji Tower or the Sphinx might look like as edible holiday sculptures? Read more

Terry Trucco

A Fleet of Gingerbread Houses Salute on the Holidays at Le Parker Meridien

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After Occupy Wall Street could Occupy North Pole be far behind? Hey, elves have issues, too. And they’re writ large in gingerbread, gumdrops, icing and candy canes on a stand-out gingerbread house on view in the third annual show of gingerbread creations – houses and otherwise – at Le Parker Meridien hotel. Read more