EDINA, Minn. — In his work as an architect, Larry Koch helps build cities that last. He’s also known for building cities that last a few weeks.
“This is Paris,” Larry says as he plays a video on his laptop. Paris has never looked sweeter, recreated in miniature with cookies, candy, crackers, and frosting.
For 18 years, Larry, his family, coworkers, friends, and neighbors have spent weeks creating, in painstaking detail, winter cityscapes.
“Then, we did Rome one year,” Larry continues as he scrolls past the Vatican, the Colosseum, and the Pantheon, created with building materials found not at Home Depot but a grocery store baking aisle…