The holiday season has always been about food at our house. I love to order items from the many catalogs that arrive in the ...

Norma Hoots Lynch has made this fruitcake every year since it won The News & Observer’s contest in 1992, and even fruitcake bashers love it ...

And so, this is Christmas, and what have you done? Another year over and a new one just begun. The saga of the fruitcake continues! Since the last of our family’s group from the “Greatest Generation” ...

Fruitcake has a reputation that travels faster than the dessert itself. Some people love it, others joke about it, and plenty ...

The holidays always bring up conflicts — not just about family or politics, but important things like which seasonal treats are disgusting and which are delicious. Strong feelings tend to arise when ...

Denzil Saldanha is over 80 but far from retired. He takes orders on the phone, surrounded by workers, newspapers spread out in front of them, cutting slices of fruitcake with thick almond icing. The ...

PEOPLE staffers share their most controversial holiday opinions about Christmas trees, holiday music and sweet treats.

(The Conversation) – Nothing says Christmas quite like a fruitcake – or, at the very least, a fruitcake joke. A quip attributed to former “Tonight Show” host Johnny Carson has it that “There is only ...

Love it or not, a Central Texas bakery has turned fruitcake into a global business, shipping its holiday staple far beyond ...