NPR Holiday Favorites

Like an overstuffed stocking on Christmas morning, NPR Holiday Favorites is full of unexpected pleasures and evergreen delights: - David Sedaris contributes his now classic Santaland Diaries, his account of his experiences playing Santas little helper at Macys in New York. - Susan Stamberg sneaks her mother-in-laws recipe for cranberry relish onto the air again. - Storyteller Kevin Kling finds an invitation to participate in a production of The Nutcracker too tempting to resist. - Ghanian-born commentator Meri Danquah shares her thoughts on Kwanzaa. - Cowboy poet Baxter Black describes a Christmas cookie with the denseness of an anvil and the half-life of a radial tire. - Robert Siegel goes in search of the correct spelling for Decembers Jewish holiday. - The Thanksgiving tables are turned on unsuspecting Bostonians in When Turkeys Attack. And more.