This article relies largely or entirely on a single source. Relevant discussion may be found on the talk page. Episodes were wild rice hotdish with hamburger shown on the Travel Channel.
Each episode focuses on a certain type of restaurant, such as “Diners”, “Bars”, “Drive-Thrus” or “Breakfast” places that people go to find a certain food specialty. The first episode premiered on December 17, 2007 on Travel Channel. There was a total of 15 episodes. You can help by adding to it.
Food Paradise – Restaurant Locations, Maps, Road Trip Planner”. When the term first appeared, newspapers used it in quotation marks. In the 1970s, the most popular comfort food in the United States were various potato dishes and chicken soup, but even at the time, the definition varied from person to person. Consuming energy-dense, high calorie, high fat, salt or sugar foods, such as ice cream, chocolate or french fries, may trigger the reward system in the human brain, which gives a distinctive pleasure or temporary sense of emotional elevation and relaxation.
The identification of particular items as comfort food may be idiosyncratic, though patterns are detectable. Comfort food consumption is seen as a response to emotional stress and, consequently, as a key contributor to the epidemic of obesity in the United States. Further studies suggest that consumption of comfort food is triggered in men by positive emotions, and by negative ones in women. A therapeutic use of these findings includes offering comfort foods or “happy hour” beverages to anorectic geriatric patients whose health and quality of life otherwise decreases with reduced oral intake. A partial list by region of comfort foods around the world.
This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. A plate of classic poutine at a Montreal restaurant. Bangers and mash is a British comfort food. Ful medames served with hard-boiled eggs, a staple in Egypt. A madeleine de Proust is a French expression specifically referring to Marcel Proust’s description of comfort food in In Search of Lost Time. Some popular Indonesian foods are considered to be comfort food, usually served hot or warm, and either soupy or with a soft texture.
