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Love it or hate it, fruitcake has been a winter holiday staple for a long time. You could say the earliest version was a barley, pomegranate seed, nut, raisin, and honeyed wine dessert called satura that was made in ancient Rome. It was essentially an energy bar that the Roman Legions loved to have on […]
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This Fruitcake Is Still Good After a Century in the Antarctic!
November 3rd, 2020 
Awake Goy A traditional English fruitcake is not what researchers in the Antarctic expected to find inside an explorer’s camp. Having survived over a century of snow, ice and wind on what is regarded as one of the driest places on Earth, a team of modern explorers from New Zealand-based Antarctic Heritage Trust recently unearthed the fruitcake in […]
