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John Parmentier Takes Top Honor At Gingerbread Lunch

Chef John Parmentier's pop-up book style interpretation of 'Twas the Night Before Christmas' was voted best-in-show at the for 2013 gingerbread Lunch in Bloomfield Hills.

Chef Taylor Brockenshire of the Townsend Hotel earned second prize among the professionals that entered the annual Gingerbread Brunch competition to benefit Preservation Bloomfield.

His creation, a colorful house with a steep roof topped with a sitting elf, received multiple bids and was among the favorites of the judges and sellout crowd Friday at Oakland Hillls Country Club in Bloomfield Township.

Their work and about a dozen others were on display Friday morning in one of the key fundraisers for restoration of the 1832 Barton House.

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