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First Aired - 12/15/2011 10:00AM
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Get ready to loosen up your belt a notch or two because A Taste of The Past is having a Christmas feast. Host Linda Pelaccio is joined accomplished food historian Clifford Wright who explains history of holiday feasts from the origin of the real St. Nicholas to the significance sweets at the holidays for the poor. This episode is sponsored The Barterhouse.
"We take it for granted, but there was a time when people couldn't afford food and (Christmas) was the one time of the year you could have visions of sugar plums" - historian Clifford Wright on A Taste of the Past
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Who Was St. Nicholas? (20:51)
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