Article: Spread it around: Cheeseballs are tradition

The English essayist Charles Lamb once wrote an eloquent essay in praise of roast suckling pig. The French novelist Marcel Proust got an entire novel, "Remembrance of Things Past," out of a single taste of a madeleine. Nat King Cole sang of chestnuts roasting on an open fire.

But who sings of the humble cheeseball?

Golden orb of our holiday delight, the cheeseball is as traditional as Christmas fruitcake. And more loved. A slogan on a T-shirt sums it up: "Friends do not give friends fruitcake." But you will never see an anti-cheeseball slogan. At a holiday housewarming, what do people gather round? Never the fruitcake. Not the platter of cold cuts. Not the plate of Christmas cookies. ...

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