White House is dressed in holiday style
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Clifford Armion
le 29/11/2012
Activer le mode zenJura Koncius
This year’s official White House holiday gingerbread house is gray. But don’t panic — it wasn’t recycled from the deep freeze of White House Christmases past.The 300-pound replica of the presidential mansion, made for the first time of rye-, wheat- and white-flour gingerbread, replicates the original sandstone used in the building of the White House. “I went to the first lady’s office to present my idea, and they liked it,” says Bill Yosses, White House executive pastry chef. “We made it to look like it did when it was built with stone from Aquia, Virginia, before they painted it white in 1798.”
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"White House is dressed in holiday style", La Clé des Langues [en ligne], Lyon, ENS de LYON/DGESCO (ISSN 2107-7029), novembre 2012. Consulté le 18/04/2024. URL: https://cle.ens-lyon.fr/anglais/archives/archives-revue-de-presse/white-house-is-dressed-in-holiday-style