"Inside the Gingerbread Contest So Intense Judges Use Flashlights, Rulers, and Drills" By Catherine Jessee for AllRecipes

“You know, it looks like a gingerbread house,” my Uber driver says as we wind through the forest-lined roads toward the Omni Grove Park Inn & Spa in Asheville, North Carolina. I’ve heard the hotel is otherworldly—an idyllic mountain escape since it opened in 1913. He doesn’t believe me when I tell him the hotel is my destination for the National Gingerbread House Competition, an event the hotel has been hosting since 1992.


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