Oh how absolutely cool! The culinary arts students at Schoolcraft College in Livonia produced a wonderful little village of happy candy houses. They were very creative, pez candies as bricks, golden grahams cereal make great shingles--I was esp. enamoured with the vertical stacks of star cut out cookies to make a fir tree--veddy nice; The whole gingerbread village was really enchanting. It was really quite impressive when you realized that even the streets were slivered almonds. I was surprised at the steady stream of people visiting. We also got to walk down the wing of classrooms where the students were busy at work, they all looked so chipper and cheerful--very unlike Anthony Bourdain's books. Isabel of course was ecstatic pointing out all the little details like flowers in the flower shop window and tiny little cupcakes in the bakery. Zoli had a blast identifying the types of candy. They both would proclaim that "This" was the house they were gonna live in if they ever became tiny little confections--until they saw the next structure. At the risk of sounding banal--It was cute. Damn cute--Go! Be festive!-- it won't hurt.
