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For as long as I can remember, the Christmas fruitcake has been a terrific source of holiday humor.
Read moreWith the hustle and bustle of everyday, you shouldn’t have to wait for a special occasion to have a party - try turning the everyday into its own celebration and adopting an up-for-anything attitude.
Read moreIt’s the most wonderful time of the year, when cooks around the country take to their kitchens to bake cookies galore. Whether you prefer gingerbread men, crisp springerle or crunchy biscotti, chances are you’ll enjoy some fresh baked Christmas cookies this holiday season. Like many Christmas traditions, the origin of this delicious custom lies ages ago, in solstice rituals conducted long before Christmas became the huge commercial holiday it is today.
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Read moreSanta’s Magical Reindeer (R.t. saintnicolas magicalus) look very similar to common reindeer or caribou, but have many characteristics that distinguish them from the seven common subspecies: barrenground (Rangifer tarandus granti), Svalbard (R.t platyrhynchus), European (R.t. tarandus), Finnish forest reindeer (R.t. fennicus), Greenland (R.t. groenlandicus), woodland (R.t. caribou), and Peary (R.t. pearyi).
Read moreIn the hills on a cold dreary day a little Shepherd boy
Read moreJudith Flanders’ “Christmas: A Biography” manages to be not only a timely history of the festive season but also an overdue re-evaluation of some of the common assumptions about it. Those who believe that a once religious event has been tarnished by our modern-day secular, capitalist society will quickly learn that from the earliest of days the focal point of Christmas for the majority was not the birth of Christ but the acts of eating, drinking and being merry. Similarly, anyone who considers their country’s yuletide customs to be the only true ones will discover again and again that Christmas is a “strange hybrid growth,” a composite of traditions and stories from far and wide.
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