{"id":20393,"date":"2023-12-01T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qa.vet.purdue.edu\/news\/?p=20393"},"modified":"2023-12-01T12:00:11","modified_gmt":"2023-12-01T17:00:11","slug":"continuum-cafe-serves-up-gingerbread-but-not-as-a-menu-item","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/continuum-cafe-serves-up-gingerbread-but-not-as-a-menu-item.php","title":{"rendered":"Continuum Caf\u00e9 Serves-up Gingerbread, But Not as a Menu Item!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Continuum Caf\u00e9 Gingerbread House on display at the caf\u00e9 serving area before joining the university’s holiday display in the Purdue Memorial Union.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n
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What\u2019s sugar and spice and everything nice, with a candy replica of Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s \u201cRockette the Circus Bear\u201d sculpture on the side? Well, a gingerbread house designed by the talented team at the Continuum Caf\u00e9, of course! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of a festive holiday activity coordinated by the Purdue Food Company, the Continuum Caf\u00e9 team of Tammie Hill (manager), Rebecca Watkins, Christianna Bradley, and Purdue student workers, Merin Manoj and Ashton Widjajanto, designed and built a gingerbread house depicting key elements of the caf\u00e9\u2019s menu and layout along with some fun extra decorations. The Purdue Food Company is the Aramark-run food service enterprise that operates some 30 Purdue eateries on campus, including the Continuum Caf\u00e9.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Features of the Continuum Caf\u00e9 Gingerbread House include the sandwich bar (complete with fixings like bread, cheese, lettuce, and tomato), the Coke machine, and a very realistic replica of Rockette the Circus Bear \u2013 the sculpture that sits in the curved hallway adjacent to the caf\u00e9, where it was placed after being donated to the college by supporters of the Art Museum of Greater Lafayette\u2019s \u201cLions, Tigers, and Bears\u201d community art project a few years ago.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The gingerbread house was designed and constructed by the caf\u00e9 team of (left-right) Ashton Widjajanto, Merin Manoj, Rebecca Watkins, Tammie Hill, and Christianna Bradley.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The gingerbread house contest is open to all of the Purdue Food Company eateries. They each received a base house with the charge to decorate it using supplied candy along with optional extras, with the caveat that everything had to be edible. Voting now is underway via social media<\/a>, so people can vote for their favorite gingerbread house. The Continuum Caf\u00e9 entry was on display in the caf\u00e9 until yesterday, when it was moved to be part of the PMU\u2019s holiday display on the main floor of the Union, along with the gingerbread houses that were created by the eateries that are located in the Union. Also, photos of the creations in the competition will be shared in a holiday slideshow at the Union. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The social media voting is scheduled to continue through December 8.\u00a0 Click here to cast your vote<\/a> via Instagram for your favorite gingerbread house \u2013 and, don\u2019t be surprised if it turns out to be the one crafted by our own Continuum Caf\u00e9 team! (There are two groups of houses pictured on Instagram \u2013 the Continuum Caf\u00e9\u2019s entry is #4 in Part 1).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Thanks to our Continuum Caf\u00e9 team for using this competition to boost spirits in Lynn Hall during this holiday season!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What\u2019s sugar and spice and everything nice, with a candy replica of Purdue Veterinary Medicine\u2019s \u201cRockette the Circus Bear\u201d sculpture on the side?\u00a0Well, a gingerbread house designed by the talented team at the Continuum Caf\u00e9, of course!\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":20395,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[1806,874,56],"class_list":["post-20393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-people","tag-continuum-cafe","tag-holidays","tag-homepage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20393"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20420,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20393\/revisions\/20420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vet.purdue.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}