Our good friend Joe Hickel is the pastry chef at the Hotel Captain Cook in downtown Anchorage. The late Governor Wally Hickel built the hotel; now four of his sons, including Joe, own the place.
For 36 years, he's been building gingerbread villages in the windows of the hotel. Here's a nice story about this year's effort, still in progress when this report was recorded:
John 12:24 "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit."
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04 December 2014
23 December 2013
Gingerbread Village 2013
Our friend Joe Hickel's gingerbread village at the Hotel Captain Cook, in downtown Anchorage:
17 December 2013
The Gingerbread Village - Annual Anchorage Tradition
Joe Hickel*, pastry chef & one of the owners of the Hotel Captain Cook in downtown Anchorage, has been building elaborate gingerbread villages in the hotel lobby for decades.
I'm proud to say that Younger Daughter, who works for Joe, helps with the village. Aside from helping to roll out the huge sheets of gingerbread, she also made all the trees you see in the video.
* The late Walter J. Hickel, former Governor of Alaska, was the patriarch of the family which owns the hotel. Joe is one of five brothers. :)
I'm proud to say that Younger Daughter, who works for Joe, helps with the village. Aside from helping to roll out the huge sheets of gingerbread, she also made all the trees you see in the video.
* The late Walter J. Hickel, former Governor of Alaska, was the patriarch of the family which owns the hotel. Joe is one of five brothers. :)
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