Use these earthenware red and white candy-striped spoons to stir cocoa or hot cider or to eat Christmas pudding. (Charles V. Tines / The Detroit News)
In a recent article in Saveur magazine, writer Ilisa Katz says that gingerbread figurines (both edible and non-edible) have a long and colorful history. For example, "On All Hallows' Eve, English maidens would eat a gingerbread 'husband' to ensure that they would find a real mate. In Hungary and Yugoslavia, decorated gingerbread dolls inscribed with romantic sentiments or inlaid with tiny mirrors were exchanged as love tokens." And just the other day I heard on the radio that this holiday season, you can find the world's largest gingerbread man (8 1/2 feet tall, 1,435 pounds) on display at an IKEAstore in Oslo, Norway. Lucky for us, the following gingerbread-themed items can be found right in our own backyard:
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