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CHICAGO — In 1995, Agnes Da Costa won fourth place in the Tribune’s 10th annual Holiday Cookie Contest with the sweetly named Friendship Cookies.

Fruitcakes are a holiday treat many people love — and many more, it seems, love to hate. Stale jokes aside, though, the fruitcake has a long history that even predates Christmas itself.

Our three winning cookie recipes for the 36th annual Holiday Cookie Contest offer an ideal variety of cookies for spreading cheer this season.

Carrot scraps, watermelon rinds, coffee grounds, bitter fruit pith and everything else you've most likely thrown into your garbage are on the menu at Slow Burn, though you'd never recognize them as such. Fermented, dehydrated or otherwise preserved, they wind up in glass jars and bottles of all shapes and…

From the Hot Pink Cocoa - Tequila Rose’s twist on a Christmas classic, as well as Santa’s Sexy Strawberry cocktail, Pudding Shots - and the new internet sensation - the Glamour Slammer

The cost has risen three times as fast as wages

Turkey, pigs in blankets, carrots and roast potatoes have all increased in price by an average of 18 per cent, reports Jonathan Kanengoni

Reporter Siobhan McNally ate five Christmas dinners in a day to see which supermarket offered the best deal

How one writer attempted to conquer the sugar-spun tower and homophobic bullies all in one afternoon

One leading supermarket is offering a Santa which tastes good - and is excellent value

‘The idea that we were set out to insult anybody is ridiculous,’ says Leith