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Anton Savage: Why sleeping bags are key to avoiding a nightmare before Christmas
Anton Savage shares his four rules to avoid a kitchen meltdown this Christmas, including an unusual cooking hack to keep the turkey warm
For home cooks, Christmas is the period with the greatest delta between effort and reward. We have to cook for four times the normal quantity of people and serve multiple courses, while drinking, in an overcrowded house full of people saying “Can I help?” while simultaneously getting in the way.
This would be challenging enough if we didn’t inexplicably forget all of the rules of home cooking we rely on for the rest of the ...