by Joe Gray

'Tis not the season without panettone. The mile-high domed Italian Christmas bread, studded with raisins and candied orange, light and airy in texture yet richly flavored with eggs and butter, tastes like the holiday.

Our mom had it at Christmas always, a reminder of her Italian homeland, though she had to travel far from our little Ohio village to the one grocer for miles that carried it.

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