and candy cane fence posts. But where did the ubiquitous, delicious, three dimensional holiday construction originate? While the precise origins of the delicious treat we know today as gingerbread ...

Long before David Sedaris was the surly Crumpet at Macy's and wrote "Santaland Diaries," I was working the business side of a candy-cane fence. Decades ago, when I was 14 and the world was really ...