There’s something just so, well, comforting about comfort foods: Not only do they taste delicious, but in many cases, they take us on an emotional journey, bringing back memories that make us feel safe, calm, and just plain satisfied.
“Eating cultural foods can take us back to a comforting experience, which has a sentimental or nostalgic value,” Different cultures tend to use different ingredients—including fruits, vegetables, herbs, and spices—and different preparation techniques, which bring unique bursts of flavor and texture to dishes that you may not be familiar with otherwise, explains Gina DeLuca, R.D., C.D.N., registered dietitian at Perlmutter Cancer Center at NYU Langone Hospital–Long Island.
My mom would make it as a dish classic to our Italian culture. There’s a process of steps involved in it, for instance, ‘sweating’ the eggplant, which means slicing it into disks, lightly salting them, and placing them on and between paper towels to draw out the solanine—the ingredient that gives eggplant its initial bitter taste. It can be eaten for dinner, butreheat well for lunch, and I’ve also been known to eat leftovers for breakfast when there was nothing else I wanted.
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