
Not all of the cookies got eaten at the La Jolla Athenaeum holiday party last week. Girard Gourmet catered the party and owner Francois Goedhuys spent 24 hours building a 12-foot-long and 3-foot-wide cookie replica of the village for the party. He baked up sugary, doughy versions of the Colonial and La Valencia hotels, St-James by-the-Sea and the Athenaeum. He also recreated La Jolla Cove complete with fish and seals. Santa rides down the street on his sleigh and Francois stands outside his Mount Soledad home in the cookie miniature. Francois has designed a cookie masterpiece for the La Jolla Athenaeum holiday party for the past 10 years. Last year, he featured Barack and Michelle Obama choosing their dog and homes with foreclosure signs.







