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WHAT DOES COMFORT food mean to you? This was the pressing question on our minds as we prepared our heartiest issue of the year. Goodness combined with warmth, a sense of nostalgia that melts easily into happiness, but not necessarily ‘heavy’, as the plentiful use of plants and vegetables comes to the fore. Many old techniques are new again – slow cooking; a focus on seasonality; baking from scratch; bread, dough, puddings and cakes – which sees familiar flavours become something ‘wow’ with interesting fresh twists. It’s a sexy sort of soul food – humble and hearty but a little bit luxe. For Shannon Bennett, feeding a large family means dishing up soups that are good for the soul but substantial enough, and with a star ingredient, to be the main…
