All of the Anderson family members and relatives marked on their calendar the annual fourth of July picnic every summer. Gina and Jessica were married to Anderson brothers. Although they were ten years apart in age, they would exchange comfort food recipes with each other. Each started a recipe box of Anderson family secret recipes, although they could not get great Grandpa Joe’s barbeque rub recipe. Comfort foods bring people together, especially family members.

Jessica had her own potato salad recipe. So did Gina. Jessica started a garden and used home-grown herbs for her potato salad. Gina did not have the luxury of a backyard in her Miami, Florida condo. The produce at grocery stores in Miami offered an interesting twist for the potato salad recipe. The two would phone each other and spend hours talking about what they were going to bring to the Anderson family picnic. Now, that is dedication to comfort foods.

One year, Jessica tried some cilantro in her potato salad recipe. She did not tell Gina about this. Gina picked up some cilantro at the store and put it in her potato salad. When they next met, they were pleasantly surprised that the potato salads tasted very similar. When they revealed to each other what they had done, they remarked how they were thinking like an Anderson. Such family stories accompany comfort foods.

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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.