Festive foods: Fruitcake

Nothing says Christmas like fruitcake, or at least in my mind, as this classic holiday loaf has decorated my Christmas table since childhood Christmas dinners spend at my grandmother’s house, where the only thing I liked better was her shortbread (wait for it, that’ll be coming later!). Fruitcake is a cake made with chopped nuts,…

Sensitivity over allegedly racist sports names

Recently, the National Congress of American Indians created and spread a video protesting the use of the archaic and derogatory term “redskin” for the football team, the Washington Redskins.  The video features members of the Aboriginal community defying the “caricature” that still persists and somehow seems to allow the use of such words to pass uncriticized by…