LUKE HONEY'S
In Tchaikovsky's delightful Christmas ballet. , a wooden nutcracker comeg to life on Christmas Eve, turning from a children's toy into a handsome prince. The humble nutcracker's association with Christmas is a relatively recent phenomenon; nutcrackers have been with us for thousands of years. Nuts have formed part of the human diet since prehistory: stones, used for cracking open nuts, have been found in archaeological excavations
