The Anderson family and relatives had a fourth of July picnic every year. To this day, everyone speaks fondly of the gathering and the various menu items that they consider as comfort foods. Grandma Emily would always bring several bowls of rustic potato salad. This, too, is an Anderson family secret recipe item. She grew potatoes in her garden just for this event.

Until Grandpa Marcus passed away, he would help with the gardening. Now Gradma Emily tended to the garden with the help of her neighbor, Marilyn. Marilyn became an adopted Anderson, and was always invited to the picnic. Over the years, making of the famous potato salad became an event for Grandma Emily and Marilyn. Marilyn was a widow who enjoyed the company of the Andersons. She looked forward to the picnic every year and to partake in the festivities. Comfort foods are meant to be shared.

What made Grandma Emily's rustic potato salad recipe so famous among the Andersons are several things. Ask any Anderson, and they will tell you variations of the same them. The potatoes were prepared with the skin intact. The herbs and spices were grown and harvested from her garden. Most importantly, Grandma Emily and Marilyn spent hours making the rustic potato salad. Care and heart were indeed the ingredients for this comfort food.

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Cheer up wisely: Comfort foods can be made healthier (Asheville Citizen-Times)
By definition, comfort foods are generally not the healthiest.
Remaking comfort foods: Cheddar and beer soup (South Bend Tribune)
Healthful eating and comfort food don't have to go together like spinach and brownies.
Back to basics: Experts predict food in 2009 will be comfort driven with more...
ANDREW SULLIVAN/STAMFORD ADVOCATEFrugal fare such as bean soup can be a reliable comfort when money's tight in uncertain times. Food trends are fickle. They ebb and flow with economic times and over the past few years they've run the gamut...
The Recipe for Cool Weather Comfort Foods (Today's News-Herald)
(ARA) - As the weather gets brisk and the sun sets earlier, we find ourselves yearning for food and beverages that are simple, familiar and home-made. Comfort food is as soothing as a warm sweater, but it doesn't have to be boring if you add a little creativity.
Recipe Makeover: chicken-fried steak and gravy (San Jose Mercury News)
In making over chicken-fried steak, "we skip the deep frying, but with rich country gravy as consolation, you won't miss it," writes Jessie Price in "Comfort Foods Made Healthy.
Coffee and Chocolate Holding Up in Down Economy (AG Weekly)
In the United States, the true comfort foods are chocolate and coffee -which may provide relief for investors battered by plummeting prices for oil, gold, wheat and other products.
Comfort foods can be healthy too (The Charlotte Observer)
(By Heather Lalley, Chicago Tribune) Healthful eating and comfort food don't have to go together like spinach and brownies. It's just that we've become so accustomed to thinking good-for-you dishes can't be warm, gooey and soul-satisfying. But Jessie Price and her fellow editors at Vermont-based EatingWell magazine want to prove that conventional wisdom wrong. They've compiled nearly 200 ...
Feel-good Foods to Battle the Winter Blues (Lexington Clipper-Herald)
(ARA) - It's that time of year again when temperatures hit single digits, clothing gets heavier and it can be difficult to resist the urge to curl up all day under a warm and comfy blanket with an engaging book.
Cold comfort (The Age)
Justine Costigan savours a range of flavours that take some licking.
Kettle adds sweet onion chip (The Portland Business Journal)
Kettle Foods added a new flavor to its line of ?Big Game? chips.