Fruitcake

It's that time of year again, when retailers pull out all the holiday decorating stops. I was in Las Vegas over the weekend, and I snapped a photo of this Ted Baker-does-Marilyn Monroe window at the Forum Shops. The best......

The only thing worse than a fruitcake is an evergreen essay about fruitcakes. But a friend of my friends' showed up at a Thanksgiving open house with a fruitcake from Collin Street Bakery in Corsicana, TX. Her mother sends her......

Even for a speaker as famously gifted as President Barack Obama, business executives are a tough crowd. In my experience, they don't laugh out loud at jokes as easily as, say, college students and others who might be more prone to laugh, clap, cheer or...

The royal wedding lunch menu for Queen Elizabeth II's reception for newlyweds Prince William and Kate Middleton included 10,000 savory and sweet canapes made by 21 chefs working with the royal chef. The cake cutting was to happen at the Buckingham...

Take a look at the royal wedding cake. The fruitcake royal wedding cake, designed by Fiona Cairns, was accompanied by a chocolate biscuit cake that William had requested made from a royal family recipe. The newlyweds cut the cake at the queen's Buckingham...

In my ongoing quest to bring you the very best in drinking news, I have once again thrown my liver on the sword to taste a variety of yummy cocktails in search of the perfect holiday concoction. Fortunately for me,......

The Catholic monks of the New Camaldoli Hermitage have lived a world apart in the inspirational majesty of Big Sur for half a century. They know well the power of prayer and contemplation. Money management is another matter. Never did......

The Do's and Don'ts of Holiday Gifting To purchase a copy of the book: Merry Christmas, America!: Megawatt Displays Across the U.S.A. Tips: DON'T give a fruitcake. Unless it's to my grandma. She seems to be the only one on earth to ever eat one....

Still fuming about the stale fruitcake, the corporate-logo key chain or the cheap alarm clock? We're going to go out on a limb here and say that when it comes to the worst office holiday gift, Rebecca Keaty has you beat. Keaty, 32, of Chicago, describes...

Here are reviews of offerings at the Orlando International Fringe Festival from Sentinel theater critic Matthew J. Palm, staff writers Tod Caviness, Dewayne Bevil, Kelly Fitzpatrick, Jim Abbott, Martha Phifer, Alsy Acevedo and Fringe correspondent Mary...

Fruitcake? Bring it on. The lovely pale fruitcakes made with sherry and the best dried fruits. The creepiest ones full of red and green colored things that might once have been fruit. The nutty ones that hardly deserve the name.......

For many, the holidays can be stressful. Gift buying, fractious family reunions and hectic travel schedules can cause heartburn long before the last bites of turkey or Aunt Rita's fruitcake are finished. Our family's extra source of stress each winter?......