Christmas gift/shopping suggestion

If you are looking for top-quality nuts of all sorts, and absolutely wonderful dried fruits, I recommend to you the Houston Pecan Company of, well, Houston.

http://houstonpecan.com/

Our son lived in Houston for about 10 years, and we spent more time down there than we did in Chicago's Loop. After we discovered Houston Pecan, we made a lot of visits there, and brought lots of their products home. Their pecans and apricots are especially good, but everything we've tried has been superb.

It was founded by a Mr. Cooper, a German Jewish immigrant who came to the US after WW II.

After WW II??

Yes...

Mr. Cooper was one of those on Schindler's List.