comfort food

Example Sentences

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They still lean heavily into comfort food and house wine with one notable exception.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

If I’m in the cooking mood, I love making comfort food like chicken and rice with cabbage and mac and cheese.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 10, 2026

If vegetables feel like an obligation, tuck them into lemony beans, dense spoon salads, roasted carrots with yogurt or a produce-packed pasta that eats like comfort food.

From Salon • Feb. 18, 2026

Because who other than the queen of comfort food could step into the shoes of Dame Prue Leith, who is leaving the show in order to "work less and play more"?

From BBC • Feb. 14, 2026

“You must mean summer of tutoring,” she would say in what became a familiar joke that, like comfort food, they would reach for from time to time.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie