Comfort food is nurturing, wholesome and soul-satisfying. It connects us with thoughts and memories of special times and special people. Comfort food can be hot soup on a cold day, great grandmother s biscuits warm from the oven, rice pudding for someone ill, a pot of stew for a new mother, or a thoughtfully chosen meal for friends. Meaningful connections are formed between people through preparing, serving and sharing comfort food. That is what comfort food is.
Some people insist that all good cooking is automatically comforting, warming, soothing.
Others claim there are certain foods that are inherently more comforting than others, dishes so strongly evocative of good, safe and happy times that the mere mention of them raises a warm and cozy glow and enhances our well-being. Brighten dreary days with cheery comfort cooking. Chances are, most of her special dishes weren't fancy but took some time to make.