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Episode 85: The History of the Christmas Feast
Episode 85: The History of the Christmas Feast
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Length:
33 minutes
Released:
Dec 15, 2011
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Podcast episode
Description
Get ready to loosen up your belt a notch or two because A Taste of The Past is having a Christmas feast. Host Linda Pelaccio is joined accomplished food historian Clifford Wright who explains history of holiday feasts from the origin of the real St. Nicholas to the significance sweets at the holidays for the poor. This episode is sponsored The Barterhouse. We take it for granted, but there was a time when people couldnt afford food and (Christmas) was the one time of the year you could have visions of sugar plums - Historian Clifford Wright on A Taste of the Past
Released:
Dec 15, 2011
Format:
Podcast episode
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