20 Comfort Foods From Around The World

Herrine Ro: In these stressful food can fix any bad day.

from person to person.to share what food is to them.

I'll start with mine.It's rooted in where you're fromand who you grew up with.

We asked 20 people from different cultural backgrounds

It's typically high in sugar, fat, and/or salt.And the great thing about food is that it varies

and uncertain times of quarantine,people from everywhere the planet

are seeking comfort in food.

20 Comfort Foods From Around The World

• :My favorite food is kimchi jjigae

or kimchi stew I'm Korean American,and, growing, up my mom made kimchi jjigae

pretty often for dinner. My mom's kimchi jjigae has that son-mat. Son-mat in Korean means, like,

hand taste. the simplest way I can describe it's my mom's special touch.Even if I attempt to make my mom'

kimchi jjigae here in ny City, i can not get that taste because it lacks my mom's special touch.

So, basically, the flavors that you're getting are, like, spicy, salty,

fatty, sour. It's basically everything that I crave .when I'm missing my mom

• Tomi Obebe:

I'm Nigerian, and one among my favorite comfort foods has got to be amala and okra soup. to form it, you're taking some yam flour and you pour it into boiling predicament , stir it up very quickly, and it gets to the present nice thick consistency. From there, you'll divide your meal into whatever size you would like . then you'll dip it into your soup of choice. And not only is it a super-tasty meal, but after you eat it, [snaps] it hits you, and it puts you in one among those nice food comas. I remember sneaking into the kitchen as a toddler and trying to tear away small pieces of amala, or, like, the eru seeds that they put within the soup and taking it back to my playroom. So, of course, now anytime that I even have it, I just automatically consider home .

• Sarah Isoke:

I'm Trinidadian,and my favorite food is bake and saltfish.Bake and saltfish may be a dish comprised of bake,which is dough unrolled ,and a fish called bacalao.It's a salted cod that we chop , we boil,

and we sauté with sweet tomatoes and sweet onions.I think it's my favorite food simply because

it brings back a memory of my grandmother.She wont to own a daycare, and whenever she was

making something with dough, like bake,she would roll up little pieces of the dough

and give it to the youngsters to play with.And we would justgo crazy for those little pieces of dough.

• Matthew Ferere:

My favorite Haitian food is griot.Griot is fried pork shoulder that features a special cut

where it's just the proper amount of fatand just the proper amount of skin thereon .You would season it well,

bake it briefly,and then fry it.So, then , it'll get that nicecrispy on the surface , tender on the within taste.

I can remember being a toddler ,you know, at every Haitian gathering, family party,

if you had griot on your plate that night,you knew it had been gonna be an honest night.

• Lisa Paradise:

My food has always been pastinawhich is sort of a really unhealthy versionof Italian wedding soup.It has no vegetables.It's really just pasta and meatballs.So, the way that my mom makes her meatballsis really what I always crave.She does a mixture of pork, of ground pork,ground beef, and ground veal.And then she adds in only five ingredients.So, the five ingredients are salt, pepper,garlic powder, parsley, and cheese.It's not just, like, Parmesan cheese;it's always pecorino Romano cheese.That's, like, the go-to key ingredient.Whenever i'm going home or whenever I'm, like,sad or sick or whatever,that's what i would like my mom to form me,or that is what I, like, want to eat.

• Naja Newell:

I'm from ny , and my favoritecomfort food is grilled cheese.Growing up as picky eater,grilled cheese was the No. 1 thing I could getfrom every single family memberand every single restaurantand it's almost the precise same every single time.So, today once I make grilled cheese for myself,I just use white or wheat bread,and I'll use white American cheese .It jogs my memory of being best friends with my mom.

• Alyson Brown:

I'm Alyson Brown, and todaywe're gonna mention beef patties,because that's my favorite Jamaican food .Growing up, my father wont to bring home,like, a box of beef patties.And he wont to put them on the tableand it had been first come, first serve,and if you probably did not get your chopped steak ,

you would be tight.I love beef patties due to how diverse they're .You could get a chopped steak , a callaloo patty,a ackee patty, any sort of patty.My family is Jamaican.

The're from Jamaica.I'm American, i used to be born here.But once we attend Jamaica, it's over.

The patties are, like, hot and prepared . They delicious.

•  Manuel Silva-Paulus:

I'm from ny , I'm Dominican,and my favorite food is mangu.Mangu is essentially like mashed potatoes,but rather than potatoes,it's plantains.And it is a food ,

so most Dominicans will eat it within the morning.Mangu is usually eaten with cebollas on top,

which is onions;queso frito on the side,which is fried cheese;salami, which may be a sort of meant;and usually, like, some people will get a dish thereon .Personally, i really like eggs, so I always get them thereon .The reason why mangu is my favorite food ,besides the very fact that it's delicious,

is because it just jogs my memory of beingin the Dominican Republic and just, like,

Being in wonderful weather, sunny, like, all inclusive atmosphere.

• Selena Singh:

My food is pepperpot.It came from Guyana's first people,known as the Amerindians.

Pepperpot may be a meal that's boiled with cassareepand spices and any choice of meat,

but my personal favorite is beef.It are often eaten with anything;bread, cassava bread, rice,

Anything you want. Pepperpot reminds me of an all-time Christmas with a family and exclusive culture in Guyana.

• Samantha Lee:

My favorite food is congee,a type of rice porridge.It's often eaten with yau ja gwai,also referred to as a Chinese doughnut.There also are many various sorts of congee.I've had it plain, with dried scallops,

with preserved egg and salted pork,and just whitefish.Growing up, my mom wouldmake this for breakfast some days,and she would also make it on behalf of me once I was sickand i could not keep any solid foods down.My mom gave up the ghost in January of 2018,so the process of creating congee and eating it

reminds me of her love, her dedication,and her patience as my mother.

• Isabella Paoletto:

I'm Mexican American,and my favorite food is tamales.Every year, my grandma and her sisters get togetherand all of them make tamales for us to eat Christmas Eve ,so it really jogs my memory of homeand of Christmastime and of my family,so it's really special.My family makes the dish with shredded porkin a red condiment with green olives.Basically, immediately only my grandmaand my aunts skills to form it,but they've began to teach me and my momand my sisters the way to roll in the hay , in order that way,we can pass it on to subsequent generation.

• Harry Kersh:

My favorite food is Marmite on toast.It just has this really rich, really savory,and quite salty flavor.

And it's just really comforting,especially when it's placed on some thickly buttered toast.I have very vivid memories of eating Marmite on toast,particularly once I was feeling a touch sick.I had an operation once I was 3 years old.I went under general anaesthetic .When I awakened , the nurse said,"Is there anything we will get you?"And my first request was Marmite on toast.

• Nisha Stickles:

My favorite food is kuay teaw,or Thai noodle soup.Thai noodle soup is that the Thai equivalentof what a deli sandwich is to New Yorkers.And you'll customize each kuay teaw order to be your own.My go-to order is kuay teaw ped,so duck noodle soup with sen mee,which are the rice noodles that are thinnerthan those you've got in pho.And I only will eat it during this one noodle shop,and I refuse to possess it elsewherebecause they only make it so special.And it sucks because i can not really replicatethat experience in any Thai restaurant here

• Jennifer Hernandez:

 My favorite comfort foodare Colombian arepas.Arepas are cornmeal patties that are typically made with salt, water, and masarepa.This is with salt, water, and masarepa.my favorite comfort food.because when I was a kid, my dad and Ididn't have matching schedules at all.So by the time he would get home, I was already sleeping,and we wouldn't see each other till the weekend.And at the weekends, our favoritefamily-time activity was to make arepas.It was also the first meal I learned how to make.So, we're gathered in our tiny kitchen.Mold them together, put it in the stove top,and then once they were ready and hot,my dad would put butter on top,sprinkle it with a little bit of cheese,and it was delicious.And it's still one of my favorite meals.

• Cory Villegas:

 My favorite comfort food isPuerto Rican pasteles de yuca.In Spanish, we call it amasa.It's like a doughy kind of thing.It has, like...you can put stuff in it.So, you can put, like, meat, chicken,you can put vegetables.I mean, they wrap it around a banana leaf,and then they boil it.And we make them in bulk.I mean, it takes two to three days to make.It's my favorite comfort foodbecause my aunts and my mom, they sit around,we talk, and they're making this dishthat is so reminiscent of our Puerto Rican culture.

• Caroline Aghajanian: 

My comfort food is lahmajun.It's a thin flatbread, almost like pizza,that's enjoyed in and around the Middle East.It's typically made by taking small dough ballsand flattening them into really thin pieces,

and then it's topped with beef or lamb,some vegetables, and spices,and then it's cooked in the oven for just a few minutes.My family and I typically buy a dozen or so of themfrom Armenian bakeries or grocery stores here in LA because they make them really tasty.

• Arturo Valenzuela:

 My comfort food is aji de gallina.It's a spicy chicken mixturethat my grandma used to make all the time.A yellow pepper that's found in Peru, aji amarillo,is mixed with, you sauté some onions,then you're gonna add some chicken broth, milk,and crackers or bread.It's a nice little paste sauce,and then with some boiled chicken that you shredded.Aji de gallina reminds me of just Peru in general.Living there, my grandfather had50, 80 chickens,and my grandma would just grab one,and it would be fresh.

• Ruqayyah Moynihan: 

I'm British Pakistani, and my favoritecomfort food is a dish called aloo ki tarkari.The reason I love this dish so muchis because it's a curry.It's very carby as opposed to one with lots of gravy.My mum usually adds to italoo, potatoes; mirch, chili;namak, salt; haldi, turmeric;and then she addssomething called panch phoron,which is a blend of five spices.You blend the spices, you fry them,you add your chopped-up potatoes, add water,boil the water off, and let the potatoes break up.It's really heartwarming, very flavorsome.And it also reminds me of coming home from schooland cooking with my mom,learning to cook with my naani, my mom's mom,who passed away a few years back.

• Barbara Corbellini Duarte: 

My two favorite Braziliancomfort foods are cheese bread and feijoada.For cheese bread, there's definitely not an occasion.It's just everywhere, all the time.You can eat it at any time of the day.

It's without a doubt the food that I miss the mostbecause it's just the perfect snack.Feijoada is basicallya giant black bean soup.It's definitely something that I grew up eating,and it's very iconic in Brazil.Almost everyone eats it.

• Aynour Elkasaby: 

My favorite comfort food has to be ful, which is fava beans.And it's usually served hot.And it's really easy to make,so that's why we make it all the time.It contains tomatoes, onions,some people put tahini in it,and we put in it a lot of spices.Usually, people eat it with pita bread.It's my favorite comfort food because, over the summer,my grandpa would make it for breakfast a lot.So we'd wake up, and it would be there.So it reminds me a lot of home.

Herrine: As social beings,social distancing may not be easy.Let's do what we can and make the most of itby enjoying our favorite comfort foods.Let us know what your favorite comfort food isand why in the comment section below