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Fruitcake: Heirloom Recipes and Memories of Truman Capote & Cousin Sook AUTH-11412193 and her artful adaptation ofFruitcake is a jaunty little collection of heirloom fruitcake recipes selected by Marie Rudisill from a nineteenth century family farm journal owned by Sook Faulk, a cousin of Rudisill and Truman Capote, who immortalized Sook in his novella, A Christmas Memory. Rudisill, made famous as "The Fruitcake Lady" on Jay Leno's Tonight Show, aims to elevate the much maligned reputation of what she calls "the queen of cakes" in this book, which features 23