Comfort Food

What's For Dinner?

Logan Shannon — Mon, 06 May 2013 18:24:00 +0000

My mother loves to cook, and as a result she raised an entire family of food obsessed children who also love to cook. My father rarely cooked but was a big fan of eating and proclaimed after every meal, “Dear, this is the best [insert main course here] I’ve EVER had!” She would roll her eyes at his genuine but exaggerated praise and I would chime in with, “Mom, this was the worst dinner ever.” A big grin would spread across her face as she leaned over to pat my head; my mom gets me. Because she cooked an amazing, well-balanced meal nearly every night, my siblings and I were consistently robbed of what we felt was the holy grail of eating: the frozen TV dinner.

People Choose High Calorie Food When Stressed

Virginia Prescott — Tue, 05 Feb 2013 14:41:06 +0000

Research from the University of Miami provides an alternative to commonly held beliefs on why we are drawn to high calorie foods and insight into the continued popularity of high fat food since the great recession. Stress, not piggishness, may trigger the choice of the double cheeseburger instead of the grilled chicken salad. We talk to Tony Salerno, a PhD candidate and co-author of the paper “Life-History Strategy, Food Choice, and Caloric Consumption” to get the skinny on the link between stress and food choices.

The Comfort Food Conundrum

Virginia Prescott and Emily Corwin — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:43:27 +0000

Can comfort food still be comforting and not be a prologue to diabetic coma? Emily Corwin investigates a Savannah, Georgia boarding house turn eatery where the health conundrum is being considered.