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Gingerbread at the White House: Red and White Gingerbread House

Gingerbread at the White House: Red and White Gingerbread House

Two years after Chef Roland Mesnier retired from the White House in 2004, First Lady Laura Bush asked him to return to design and construct another gingerbread house. Known as “The Red & White Gingerbread House,” it was covered with red bows and more than 850 snowflakes, set in a sugary winter landscape.

Date of Work
December 2004
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Courtesy of Jennifer B. Pickens/George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum/NARA