Etichetta: comforting
Animal magic! All Creatures Great and Small is the comforting TV we all need
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When Channel 5 decided to revive James Herriot’s All Creatures Great and Small – first broadcast between 1978 e 1990 – it could not possibly have known what sort of a world the new version would crash into. It debut...
Christmas with my grandmother was always special – comforting beyond words
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Christmas belonged to my grandmother. It was as if she invented it. On Christmas Eve, my mother would drive my sister and me from Hackney in east London to Hertfordshire. We’d arrive to an electric fire-heated house t...
Comforting treats after a night of TV terror
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I was in need of comfort this week. I’d been binge-watching The Terror on BBC iPlayer: the dramatic retelling of the Franklin expedition to discover the Northwest Passage that set sail on two ships (one called HMS Ter...
Death Will Come and Shall Have Your Eyes review – a strangely comforting end
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Chilean film-maker José Luis Torres Leiva’s new drama is a thoughtful treatment of terminal illness. It gets under the skin and into the thoughts of two women: a couple, and one of them is dying of cancer. Torres Leiv...
Reminding myself how little I knew as a first-time parent is strangely comforting
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For the first time in a long time, I’ve been reading my own columns from the start. The impetus came when a friend reached out to say he’d started doing so, on account of his imminent fatherhood. Going over the early ...
Rooting-tooting! 17 ways with celeriac – from a comforting rosti to excellent ice-cream
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Celeriac has many culinary virtues, but it is not handsome. In its untrimmed state, it looks like a celery plant someone brought before the Gardeners’ Question Time panel to ask what went wrong. It actually is a sort ...
Sore head? 10 easy, comforting dishes to banish a hangover – chosen by chefs
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Monica Galetti, Masterchef judge and chef proprietor of Mere, London I always go for something like mac and cheese if I’m hungover. Pasta is great for soaking everything up. I put together a cheesy bechamel sauce and...