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Article: Comfort food for American palates
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- Maryland Gazette
- Article date:
- July 21, 2004
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Most of us aspire to spend our summertime, George Gershwin-style,
where "the living is easy." And nothing feeds those playful, lazy
days better than American comfort food.
Comfort food does what its name implies. It comforts. It cheers.
And it tastes good. Comfort food is simple fare, the food of home and
family.
It is easy to recall the comfort foods of summer. They are the
soul-satisfying dishes that childhood memories are made of - potato
salad, corn on the cob, cornbread, fresh fruit salad, a perfect
hamburger, pink lemonade.
In an age where haute, nouvelle and fusion cuisine are revered,
culinary professionals have not taken comfort food very seriously.
Carrie Levin is one accomplished ...