The Book of Gingerbread

My first food book, and I still am amazed by how much detailed work it took to make gingerbread into all the original shapes I created: painted fans, autumn leaves, decorations, and even a Noah’s ark…many years before Martha Stewart made these things chic again. The book also features distinctive ginger cakes helped along by my mother, Patricia Lousada. Photos by Eileen Tweedy.

Ebury Press, London. 1984.