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This tree can be eaten after the holidays. Photo courtesy of MiniatureChristmasTrees.com. Pretty topiary “Christmas trees” made of rosemary, a foot high or slightly taller, are available at florist shops and Christmas tree lots. (The one in the photo stands 18″ tall, including the festive base.) Use them to decorate tables and add fragrance to…
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Divide a dragonfruit at the dinner table. Photo courtesy Melissas.com. Dragonfruit, Korean pears, pomegranates and cinnamon persimmons are just four fruits in season now that most people have never tried. Others, like cherimoya, jackfruit and coquitos are available year-round. You can give these fruits as gifts (Melissas.com has individual boxes and monthly “club” gifts). But…
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Make sugarplums this Christmas! What exactly are sugarplums, visions of which danced in the heads of the children in Clement Moore’s famous poem, “The Night Before Christmas?” The original sugarplums were sugar-coated coriander (the seeds of cilantro). Tiny seeds coated with many layers of sugar were a popular confection known as a comfit (not confit);…
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Perhaps you live in an area where you can cut down your own perfect Christmas tree. We don’t. We live in a city where pre-cut trees are trucked in, and even the first day they arrive, they barely have a scent. Sometimes we’re tempted to buy a pine scent spray, or even (gasp!) a polyester…
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You can give delicious chocolates and caramels on a budget. Our selection is so tempting, you should probably order some for yourself, too! We’ve got: Soft, buttery caramels from Indulge Caramels, in 13 flavors. Ghost chile chocolate bars from Lillie Belle Farms that are the hottest and best we’ve had. A set of three Angel…
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