Pork belly rillettes Photograph: Jan Baldwin for Observer Food Monthly Christmas can be a bit of an issue if you’re frazzled of mind, hard up and by yourself. But I’ve spent the last eight of them alone and on benefits and, apart from last year when I was unwell, each one has been a blessed and tranquil respite, albeit a brief one, from a scary and troubling world. There’s a simple reason for this: for a few days everything shuts down. But I think that whatever our circumstances, we all need, for the sake of our wellbeing, to treat ourselves occasionally. And if you’ve had to scrimp and save all year then what better time than the coming yuletide? What I’m saying is that the festive period...
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