Comfort Food _ Food and Cooking
Comfort food takes us somewhere Safe and cosy and simple. Many of the things we eat have a unique ability to transport us. A fresh tomato salad with Basil and Peppery olive oil can help us re-experience, for a moment, a long-gone summer in Tuscany.
Comfort food can also take us back to our childhood and remind us of exactly who we are. A photograph is good at doing that, but the way something tastes is the greatest, most comforting time machine of all.
Well-know faces reveal their ultimate comfort food.
Goldie, musician
Growing up in a children's home, I got used to the kind of meals that work for feeding 25 to 30 kids - things like Sausage and mash, Bacon and eggs - but I first associated comfort with food when I'd go home at the weekends and visit the Jamaican side of the family.
The smell of Jamaican cooking, be it in A home kitchen, a patty shop in Ladbroke Grove or Junior's Caribbean Takeaway in Dalston is, to me, home. And home means comfort. The kitchen is where the love comes from. The smells, The pots and pans, all Dry and fresh ingredients, the heat from the Scotch bonnet chillies catching your throat, it's all so beautiful.
Gareth Pugh, designer
I miss a lot of the foods I can't get hold of now for geographical reasons, like…
