date:Mar 29, 2013
Lent, the period leading up to Easter, is traditionally a time for penitence and self-denial, and there's nothing like the deluge of candy that arrives Easter morning to help compensate for those weeks of lost pleasures.
Easter is a major candy holiday, lagging behind only Halloween in sales volume. It wasn't always so.
While the other dishes that adorn the Easter table and filled Easter basketsspring lamb, dyed eggs, and hot cross bunsall trace their origins to the pagan spring festivals of