Building a Life-Sized Gingerbread House Takes Over 10,000 Cookie Bricks
(via Atlas Obscura) Gingerbread houses tend to be associated with either the holidays or the gruesome story of Hansel and Gretel. If the fairytale witch of lore left her forest cottage for the city, she might build a house such as the one displayed in the Fairmont San Francisco hotel’s lobby, most of which is edible.