Marie Rudisill, aka "The Fruitcake Lady," made her first Tonight Show with Jay Leno appearance in December 2000 in a now classic segment, when she helped Jay Leno and Mel Gibson make fruitcake. Since
Fruitcake 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 Capo
In his foreword, Gourmet contributing editor John T. Edge acclaims Sook's Cookbook as "one of the most compelling regional cookbooks of the latter half of the twentieth century." Written by Truman Cap
