Those wonderful boys in the Swiss Guard have done it again. After The Vatican Cookbook of 2016, which must by now surely be in every Catholic kitchen in the English-speaking world, David Geisser has teamed up with Thomas Kelly to produce a corresponding Christmas volume, just in time for the festive season. I’ve often wondered about the home lives of those colourful young soldiers as I’ve meandered through St Peter’s Square – or rather, I suppose, whether they still get the food that their mothers and grandmothers raised them on back home. Some of them are quite the chefs themselves, if this volume is anything to go by, and it’s hugely comforting.