Comfort Food
I Got Kicked Out of a Funeral for Mooching Off the Food
I've been in the hole after spending all of my money on psych ward bills. This is a story about how I crashed a funeral in order to eat something that is not a bowl of curried lentils (have two pounds of the stuff left in my freezer), manager’s special...
Shamburak Is the Most Beloved Comfort Food of the Kurdish
For Kurds living in Israel, shamburak—dough stuffed with ground beef and spices—tastes like home. “It’s an experience which gives me the shivers thinking about it.”
I Had Cancer and Now I'm Addicted to Japanese Food
During high school, I was diagnosed with cancer just a few months after returning from a trip to Japan. Soon, I found that the only thing that gave me solace from the constant surgeries and chemotherapy was the comfort of Japanese food.
Pique Macho Is Bolivia's Meat-Smothered Answer to Poutine
In La Paz, I had one goal in mind: finding the best pique macho in town. The dish is nothing more than a bed of French fries topped with a pile of meat that can consist of beef, chorizo, sausage, chicken, or even tripe.
A Granny-Run Cafe Housed in a Former Public Toilet Has Been Forced to Close
A comfort food cafe staffed by “nanas” adrift from Clapton’s regenerated dining scene has closed after disagreements with a preservation trust and the council.
How to Talk About Race Through Food
In this video, MUNCHIES Editor-in-chief Helen Hollyman sits down with Michael Twitty, a culinary historian whose work centers on the antebellum slave kitchen, to discuss how he addresses race through food.
Crab Mac N' Cheese Recipe
This is comfort food that’s sure to make even a freezing, turbulent boat bearable.
How to Eat Like a Loser
The day after Election Day is full of losers. Here are two methods for eating your miserable self through the realization that nobody likes you as much as you thought they did.
Airplanes Are My Favorite Restaurants
Airplane food gets a bad reputation, but I struggle to see the problem with being waited on for stretches of seven to eleven hours on a transatlantic flight doing nothing aside from watching rom-coms and every so often wiggling your toes as a half...
How-To: Make Crab Mac & Cheese with Thom Beers
If you're ever caught on the treacherous Bering Sea, you would want to have some comfort food, right? For Thom Beers, creator and executive producer of Deadliest Catch, it's all about crab mac & cheese.
Comfort Food
As with everything else they do, the girls in Japan take it just that little bit too far, right up to the point where it’s basically obsessive-compulsive disorder.