Join us for a moment as we invite you to step into the warm, inviting world of comfort food...
Comfort food is more than just good nutrition. 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.
If you take a moment to think back to the last time you prepared food with love, for yourself or others, how do you remember your enjoyment of the meal? That is what comfort food is.
What other people have to say about Comfort Food...
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. Moist meat loaves, crusty casseroles, steaming chowders, creamy spuds and rich, sweet, maybe even still-warm desserts - these are the dishes from which comfort is truly derived.
~ excerpt from Bon Appetit, February 1998
Brighten dreary days with cheery comfort cooking. Food can improve your mood, especially if it's good-old-fashioned soul-satisfying fare - steaming hearty dishes that make you feel cozy and pampered but don't require a lot of energy to prepare.
~ excerpt from 'Canadian Living', January 1998
Remember how Mom's mac 'n' cheese could smooth out a bad day? Chances are, most of her special dishes weren't fancy but took some time to make. They were worth the wait; when you ate them, you felt warm and safe.
~ excerpt from 'Sunset', January 1998