One of the most popular theories about the creation of candy canes is far more interesting than an average confectioner ...

Candy canes are now as much a feature of Christmas as carols, evergreen trees, and mistletoe, but we don’t know much about them. We don’t know who invented them or why, or when and where they ...

Imagine making 2,400 candy canes by hand. The Sweenor family doesn't have to. The candy-making family does it every holiday season , the way Walter Sweenor did for this 70-plus-year-old business.