Jesse and Jill recall one December day during their freshman year in college when they were discussing winter food traditions that were observed by their respective families. After holiday feasts, something simple and comforting was served on a cold winter evening for supper. The comfort food of choice for both families was meat loaf. Each family had a family secret recipe.

What made meat loaf a comfort food for Jesse was memories of all of his family members gathering around the dining room table for the meal. During the winter break, his older brother, his older sister, his younger brother, and his parents all shared supper together when Jesse was in high school. By then, his older brother had finished college and his older sister was a senior at a university. In Green Bay, Wisconsin, a warm family meal certainly qualified whatever was being served as comfort food.

Jill's family lived in Boston, Massachusetts. During the winter months, meat loaf was a family staple supper dish. This defined it as a comfort food in her family, and family recipe for meat loaf had crossed four generations. To this day, her aunt enters a meat loaf cook-off every spring. One year, she placed second, but has never revealed the family secret recipe 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.
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.
Natalia Rose: Eat for Simplicity (HuffingtonPost)
Whether you are a beginner or a lifelong raw devotee, if you're not seeing the benefits that the raw world promises, it is time to practice the beauty of simplicity.