It's fluffy, sweet, and studded with raisins and candied fruit peel. It's the Italian Christmas cake known as Panettone. Get ready to talk with your hands, along with me and Max Miller of Tasting History as we dig in. 

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Tasting History

Music in This Episode

• "Bushwick Tarantella" — Kevin MacLeod, via Youtube Audio Library
• "Saloon Piano - Ragtime Retro Vintage Jazz Comedy Music" — FreeGroove, via Pixabay
• "We Three Kings" — James Edwards, via Magnatune Compilation
• "PianoCello" — Reverie Now, via Pixabay
• "Pop Vibration" — Blue Dot Sessions, via Free Music Archive
• "Good King Wenceslas" — Richard Irwin, via Hymns Without Words
• "Jingle Bells" — Scott Holmes Music, via Free Music Archive

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