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Comfort Food

Published: April 25, 2020, 11:11 a.m.

b'According to the Oxford English Dictionary, \\u201ccomfort food\\u201d is \\u201cfood that comforts or affords solace;" It is the food people turn to in a crisis or time of uncertainty. And the current coronavirus pandemic has people eating those foods that evoke a psychologically comfortable state. Prof. Lucy Long speaks about the history and broader theories of comfort food.'