What is comfort food?
Comfort food is hearty. When hearts are heavy, they need gravitational and emotional equilibrium: meat loaf and mashed potatoes, macaroni and cheese, chicken pot pie, red beans and rice, creamy risotto. Food that reassures us that we will survive.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
But whatever makes your heart go pitter-patter culinarily is, to my mind, comfort food — mine happens to be kosher baby dill pickles, but chocolate has an awful lot of takers.
Sussanah Seton
What makes it comforting?
An Illinois college student thinks of comfort food as “food that has special meaning, not necessarily used to make me feel better.”
One woman, interviewed with her daughter, both of whom love eating, said, “Any food is comfort food!” But comfort food clearly connects to Mother for some women. A 44-year-old commented in her interview, “To me it’s direct connection with mother and home. It’s home cooking. It’s a direct line that provides comfort like mother.”
Miriam Meyers, A Bite Off Mama’s Plate
We need comfort food when it is stormy, or when romance has gone sour, or when your head aches and your nose runs and nobody seems to care.
Eileen Comstock
I would like to add that the most pleasing music to the ear and other organs as well, is the tinkling of knives and forks that herald the approach of the great Ruler — Food.
Rena Cole
Comfort food is here to stay, as long as we have stress — and moms.
Cathy Orr