I received a free copy of, Christmas Past, by Brian Earl, from the publisher and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I really enjoyed this book. Learning about the history of fruitcake, eggnog, minced pie, and much much more. I learned a lot a bout Christmas traditions from this book.

Christmas Past is a fun book that looks at current Christmas customs and follows them back to their roots. A wide variety of events fill the pages and some of these stories have some mighty strange beginnings.

I think this is a good book to have around and when taking breaks or just relaxing around the holidays you can read a chapter (or all!)