Whether you’re sad because you’ve failed a test, or lonely because your boyfriend or girlfriend broke up with you, there’s something that is always waiting for you, and that is comfort food – food that will cheer you up and raise your spirits.
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But where did the term come from? The answer takes us back to 1970, where a young actress named Liza Minelli first coined the phrase, “comfort food.”
“Comfort food is anything you just yum, yum, yum,” she told syndicated newspaper food columnist Johna Blinn, smacking her lips together. She was daydreaming of a hamburger with all the fixins.
Before Minnelli, comfort food had been the bland fare of the young, the elderly, and the ill. In the decade after, the two words grew slowly into an inescapable food fad, and now, a half-century later, comfort food has become the trend that will never end.
What were the types of comfort food back then, and how did the term change over time? JSTOR Daily leads us on a journey towards a brief history of comfort food. Check out the article over at the site.
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