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There is no greater comfort than consuming a meal made with love. But the next best thing, perhaps, is watching a meal be made—especially if the food is shot by a master filmmaker under beautiful lighting with a food stylist hovering just offscreen. Food movies are great, but cooking movies are divine, and this list focuses on the latter category.

Denver Post beat writer Bennett Durando opens up the Nuggets Mailbag periodically during the season. You can submit a Nuggets- or NBA-related question here. Been hearing a lot of talk about the NBA TV ratings being down, and fans not showing interest in the games. It feels like old-school fans such as myself are tired of constant 3s being thrown up.

The 2024 All-Colorado football team, as selected by The Denver Post staff based on statistical analysis, relative value to team success, postseason production and the old-fashioned eye test. Austyn Modrzewski All-Colorado selection Austyn Modrzewski of Mountain Vista poses for a portrait at the Denver Post in Denver on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024.

On a blistering cold Christmas Eve in 2023, the Broncos attempted to keep their playoff hopes alive against the New England Patriots when Sean Payton got carried away. Denver’s head coach was ultra-aggressive during the final stages of the game, burning timeouts and giving the Patriots the chance to march down the field to convert a game-winning field goal. A year later in Los Angeles, the Broncos once again faced a high-stakes situation.

It shouldn’t have taken a tragedy to launch a national conversation about our broken healthcare system and the pain it causes. But the question now is how can we use this moment of collective focus to fully acknowledge how poorly the American public is served by our healthcare system? And what can be done to fix it?

At the mention of spies, images of Hollywood characters come to mind. We all love James Bond in a tuxedo driving an Aston Martin DB5 to his latest mission or Jason Bourne’s seemingly robotic reflexes and superhuman strength when fending off attackers. But the reality of espionage is often more banal.