What is your comfort food?

A reporter recently wanted to know my opinion on comfort foods -- so I'm posing two questions: 1) what is your comfort food & 2) why do you think this is so? Once we have a number of suggestions, we can start posing a theory! (I'm not even going to post a photo to try and influence you!

The Gourmet Generation

In this article in the Christian Science Monitor, I suggest a couple of reasons why some of the Y-Generation have embraced cooking-from-scratch. Apart from culinary/baking students, do you have close friends who have embraced "extreme" cooking and why do you think they choose to spend their time and money doing so?

The best food city?

The Huffinton Post has compiled the top "food cities" based on the number of Michelin stars (related to size). What is the best food city that you've visited and what makes it so?