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Article: Nuts, puddings and crackers: coping with an English Christmas.
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- December 1, 1996
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CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 1996 Contemporary Review Company Ltd. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
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As the years pass, one thing is for sure. Resolutions are made in January merely so that they can be broken in the run-up to next Christmas. It is about Easter week that nuts bought as part of the over-abundance of festive essentials are brought out, dusted off, and busily shelled for the benefit of astonished birds, bored to death with their winter diet of peanuts.
In among the mutterings at yet another chore, each year the mind tucks away the resolve not to stock up with gimmickry this time. Items such as sugared almonds, crackers, dates, crystallised this and that, walnuts, almonds, Brazil, hazel, pecan nuts, you name it, exotica bursting with promise on ...
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