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Article: FOR YOUR COMFORT ... GRILLED CHEESE HAS ADDED A THING OR TWO SINCE THE '30S.(Food / Spotlight)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- September 19, 2001
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Byline: Marty Meitus News Food Editor
When the term comfort food entered the lexicon, it referred to mom food of the '50s: roast chicken, chocolate chip cookies, tomato soup. And when it came to sandwiches, most people thought of grilled cheese.
Americans consume an estimated 2.2 billion grilled cheese sandwiches a year, according to the NPD Group, a national marketing research firm. When Art Ginsburg, TV's ``Mr. Food,'' and the American Dairy Association teamed up this year for their grilled cheese contest, they received more than 1,000 entries vying for the best hometown grilled cheese sandwich.
The cheese sandwich sprang up in the 1930s at ...