We tend to think of Christmas-season traditions as ... “It was brilliantly lighted with...eighty lights in all encased in these dainty glass eggs, and about equally divided between white ...

Imagine raising a glass rimmed with colorful sprinkles, clinking it under twinkling lights, and sipping a ... This drink doesn’t just taste like Christmas—it feels like it, too.

The history of how these mass-produced novelty lights became a holiday fixture is a distinctly American Christmas tale.