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‘Do we ever set out to make food that discomforts? It’s true that the past year has seen a focus on food’s particular ability to provide solace’ (Getty/iStock)
Comfort food is hard to pin down.
It’s as slippery as noodles, with any attempt to characterise it often countered by an exception.
Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “the type of food that people eat when they are sad or worried, often sweet food or food that people ate as children.”
I connect with the nostalgia part and love sweet things, but I tend to reject the idea that comfort food must fill a sad- or worried-shaped hole.
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LONDON Comfort food is hard to pin down.
It’s as slippery as noodles, with any attempt to characterize it often countered by an exception.
Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “the type of food that people eat when they are sad or worried, often sweet food or food that people ate as children.”