Fruitcake - Will It Last Forever?

In "A Christmas Memory," Truman Capote writes about how, as they have done each year, Buddy and his favorite cousin inaugurate the Christmas season with a late November fruitcake baking. This entails gathering wind-fallen pecans and a visit to the dilapidated shack of Mr. Haha Jones to buy whiskey, using the money that they have accumulated through the year in their Fruitcake Fund. After four days of baking, their fruitcakes are ready for delivery to friends, "persons we’ve met maybe once, perhaps not at all."

Is it the fruitcake that lasts a long time, or the memory of the fruitcake?  I don't need a physical reminder to conjure up the sounds, sights and smells of a bakery filled to capacity with fruitcakes in various forms of completion. The fruitcake may not last forever, but those memories will.

This week, a look at long lasting fruitcake.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "Christmas, my child, is love in action. Every time we love, every time we give, it's Christmas." - Dale Evans  (American writer, film star, singer-songwriter and wife of singing cowboy Roy Rogers, 1912 - 2001)

   Fruitcake - Will It Last Forever

History of Food Safety in the U.S. - Part 2

In 1862, President Lincoln appoints a chemist, Charles M. Wetherill, to serve in the new Department of Agriculture. This was the beginning of the Bureau of Chemistry, the predecessor of the Food and Drug Administration.

This week, Part 2 of 3 on the History of Food Safety in the U.S.

TTFN, Fred.

Quote of the week: "The highest courage is to dare to appear to be what one is." - John Lancaster Spalding (American author, poet, advocate for higher education, the first bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Peoria from 1877 to 1908 and a co-founder of The Catholic University of America, 1840 - 1916).

   History of Food Safety in the U.S. Part 2