{"id":1668,"date":"2016-11-25T20:15:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:15:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lbpost.com\/articles\/life\/massive-gingerbread-village-built-in-downtown-brings-the-holiday-spirit-to-pine-avenue\/"},"modified":"2016-11-25T20:15:32","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T20:15:32","slug":"massive-gingerbread-village-built-in-downtown-brings-the-holiday-spirit-to-pine-avenue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lbpost.com\/esd\/hi-lo\/massive-gingerbread-village-built-in-downtown-brings-the-holiday-spirit-to-pine-avenue","title":{"rendered":"Massive Gingerbread Village Brings the Holiday Spirit to Downtown Long Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Photos by Asia Morris.<\/em><\/p>\n

Thanksgiving has passed and it\u2019s now officially acceptable to start putting up your decorations and celebrating the winter holidays. In fact, now would be the perfect time to stop by and admire Master Gingerbread House Maker Isaac Salgado\u2019s massive gingerbread village, located in the window at Kress Market & Deli in downtown Long Beach.<\/p>\n

The towering gingerbread city is so much more than your quaint Christmas decoration; it\u2019s an edible architectural feat. The longer you stare the more you realize just how much time and expertise was required to bring the candy-laden structure to completion.<\/p>\n

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Salgado\u2019s past experience as an executive chef\u2014he now runs his own cleaning business, Rug\u2019it Cleaning<\/a>\u2014shines through with his creativity and pure dedication to putting in over 350 hours to bring the village to candy-coated life. At least 300lbs of powdered sugar (not counting the myriad other ingredients) were used and, if you look closely, Salgado even included downtown\u2019s Loop structure<\/a>,\u00a0a nod to the colorful connector of lower and upper Pine Avenue.<\/p>\n

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The village was created not only to stoke holiday cheer, but to promote Willmore City Heritage Association (WCHA)\u2019s sixth annual Winter in Willmore<\/a>, taking place Saturday, December 17, with snow sledding, arts and crafts, gingerbread house-making and more at Drake Park from 1:00PM to 5:00PM.<\/p>\n

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Last year, Salgado created an impressive gingerbread village at what is now MADE in Miillworks<\/a>, and the year before that erected an equally outstanding structure in DOMA\u2019s corner window<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Salgado\u2019s initiative to \u201cmake sure everyone understands they can have fun with food\u201d was truly realized during this 2016 build, as he allowed several children from the area to assist with decorating the village.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThey had a great time,\u201d said Salgado. \u201cSome of them didn\u2019t even know that they could play with food, especially candy, in that sense, because they\u2019ve always been taught to just eat it. But to be able to do something along these lines, it\u2019s definitely a new and exciting experience for them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Kress Market & Deli is located at 443 Pine Avenue.<\/em><\/p>\n

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