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Sweet Surprise: Gingerbread Masterpiece Kicks Off Holiday Season 2018 at the Capitol

By Margaret Spencer
Posted November 28, 2018 at 11:49pm

By Margaret Spencer and Erin Franczak and Nathan Ouellette

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A year-end spending bill isn’t the only thing that the House of Representatives is cooking up this holiday season. A six-foot-long gingerbread model of the Capitol Building is currently on display just outside the members-only dining room. Sodexo Executive Chef Fred M. Johnson III told Roll Call that sampling the masterpiece is suspended until January 3.

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