"Gingerbread―and that’s how I say it, with a capital “G”―is a time, an event, maybe even a place, and, at its simplest and purest, a housing project, an inversion of the one I grew up in out in east Brooklyn."
Going “down home” has been a tradition since childhood. As a little girl, I’d ride with my grandma on Sunday afternoons, making the 45-minute drive to where our roots lay.
