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What is "comfort food"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
comfort food
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A lot of people consider macaroni and cheese the ultimate comfort food, but it has never enchanted us.
▪ But I argue that the lack of comfort food can also kill you.
▪ Like fried chicken, potpie symbolizes home cooking and comfort food, she said.
▪ My sister-in-law Joy has another twist on this white / yellow / butter / salt / sweet comfort food thing.
▪ The color of saffron, with dollops of red tomatoes flecked throughout, this hot potage goes beyond comfort food.
▪ This, it seems, is the truest expression of comfort food!
▪ What's your favourite comfort food?
Wiktionary
comfort food

n. 1 Simple, home-cooked-style food associated with one's formative years, often a staple of diners and other informal restaurants. 2 Food consumed to feel comfort or alleviate stress rather than to receive nutrition.

WordNet
comfort food

n. food that is simply prepared and gives a sense of wellbeing; typically food with a high sugar or carbohydrate content that is associated with childhood or with home cooking

Wikipedia
Comfort food

Comfort food is food which provides a nostalgic or sentimental value to the consumer, and is often characterized by its high caloric nature, high carbohydrate level, and simple preparation. The nostalgia may be specific to either the individual or a specific culture.

Comfort Food (novel)

Comfort Food: A Novel by Noah Ashenhurst contains a cast of characters: a romantic academic, a self-assured young writer, an enigmatic musician, a slacker, a wealthy mountaineer, and a former heroin addict—characters whose lives intersect in the unique, award-winning debut novel.

Usage examples of "comfort food".

The pastries displayed in the glass case were comfort food at its purestreminders of the days when calories and cholesterol didn't count.

Still rattled from the adventure and the subsequent shake-up, it didn't want anything as heavy as comfort food.

Shep wasn't currently able to cope in public, however, and when in this condition, he refused to eat anything but comfort food with a high fat content.