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Christmas when we remember what matters

love family friends hospitality and market with feasting, treating ourselves with

our necessary pleasures, those foods that it wouldn't be Christmas without.

Mine is chestnuts, roasted on the coal shovel over the fire and cooked for

Christmas dinner with Brussels sprouts. My mother loved them, so did her

parents, and I expect the taste went back a long way.

On the food program, we have a tradition of asking interesting people in the food world

about their necessary pleasures necessary pleasures,

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