One of the great food mysteries of the world is how fruitcakes ever became specialty of Christmas -- ostensibly a time of peace and unity. The dense and heavy dessert is usually cloyingly sweet, and the fruit in it never tastes fresh. And that's to say nothing about the odd...
One of the great food mysteries of the world is how fruitcakes ever became specialty of Christmas — ostensibly a time of peace and unity. The dense and heavy dessert is usually cloyingly sweet, and the fruit in it never tastes fresh. And that’s to say nothing about the odd…









