The Travel Channel had success with their 'Food Paradise' series, '10 Best Places to Pig Out' and those types of specials, so they knew there was a market for comfort food and wanted to develop a show around it.
Adam Richman
You can't go wrong with relatively simple comfort food. It's also about ease. Some cook to impress. I cook for people to enjoy the food.
Al Roker
My ideal meal varies, depending on the time of year. Lobster on a deck overlooking a beach at sunset is one - but all my kids have to be there, because they are all lobster-lovers. Making a bolognese sauce over pappardelle for my husband on a winter evening, because he loves my bolognese sauce and it's his comfort food.
Amy Bloom
At home, my food is just sort of comfort food. It's not super fancy, but it's certainly tasty.
Anne Burrell
It's just really hard to commit to clean eating, and then sometimes you don't want to eat cold salads. Sometimes you want that warm comfort food.
Ari Lennox
Sometimes a little comfort food can go a long way.
Benjamin Bratt
Food is a lot of people's therapy - when we say comfort food, we really mean that. It's releasing dopamine and serotonin in your brain that makes you feel good.
Brett Hoebel
Opening a family-style restaurant with comfort food like mac 'n' cheese, ribs and burgers has always been my dream.
Bridget Hall
I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.
Cecily Strong
Pierogies are textbook comfort food.
Claire Saffitz
Comfort food is absolutely moving upscale.
Danny Meyer
When I want comfort food, I buy Maltesers. I like all chocolates, but especially those. You can eat them, and because they're so light, you can convince yourself that they are not actually that fattening.
David Walliams
For me, I can't eat healthy 100 percent of the year. There's obviously those little times where you have to eat something that's not great for you, but you just need comfort food.
DeAndre Yedlin
If I feel like I need comfort food, I'll have a bowl of porridge with honey, and instead of a sweet sugar fix, I'll eat a probiotic yogurt.
Debra Stephenson
There's no denying that candy is comfort food and it's affordable.
Dylan Lauren
America is a such a melting pot, I'm not sure if roast chicken is the classic comfort food for everybody.
Eric Ripert
If I'm out of town and I'm in a situation where I have to be creative, it has to be hot dogs because that's my comfort food.
Ester Dean
Comfort food is really anything you want at that time. That said, I really love Naple-style pizza.
Geoffrey Zakarian
The knish is a classic example of peasant food evolving into comfort food and even sophisticated fare.
Gil Marks
Skillet corn bread has always been my go-to-comfort food, and my mom used to make it for me as a treat when I was younger. I do this for my girls now whenever I think they need a little love.
Gina Neely
Children's literature is one of my joys, and it's also my mental comfort food.
For me, a good YA novel is the best kind of comfort food.
Ice cream is my comfort food.
I would say there are some foods that I strongly recommend that you do not eat. No. 1 on that list, I believe, is doughnuts. Comfort food. Zero value. Don't eat them.
I like a well-roasted rotisserie chicken and eggs cooked various ways, like sunny-side up or scrambled. It's comfort food for me.
The only break I ever took was to eat. That's all I did. Work, and then quickly eat something. It became my main pleasure, having access to my comfort food.
I think it's fun to serve comfort food because it's an instant ice-breaker. If somebody's expecting fancy food, and you whip out some fried chicken, they feel like, you know, they can put their elbows on the table, and the etiquette police aren't going to come out.
Cauliflower is a great swap in so many comfort food dishes.
My number one elixir for anxiety? Comfort food.
I love comfort food - it's the basis of everything.
I want to be a chef, but I'm only a fat girl chef; like, I only like to make fat comfort food. I'm not, like, a healthy chef person.
All food is comfort food. Maybe I just like to chew.
Quesadillas, those are my comfort food.
The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.
I don't know if you call a burger 'recession food.' It's comfort food.
I like to say, jazz music is kind of like my musical equivalent of comfort food. You know, it's always where I go back to when I just want to feel sort of grounded.
Whenever I feel like having some sort of comfort food, I'll have some of it but won't have tons of it.
Tuna pie has been a comfort food for me. Back in high school, when I was still studying at ABS-CBN's Distance Learning Center, I remember buying it every day from the Jollibee kiosk in our building.
I love to cook comfort food. I'll make fish and vegetables or meat and vegetables and potatoes or rice. The ritual of it is fun for me, and the creativity of it.
Confit is the ultimate comfort food, and trendy or not, it is dazzling stuff.
By definition, comfort foods are rich and creamy or evocative of childhood pleasures.
Baking cookies is comforting, and cookies are the sweetest little bit of comfort food. They are very bite-sized and personal.
I read anything and everything. Comfort food for my brain is fantasy fiction or science fiction.
The sound of the piano is always something that is a real kind of comfort food to me.
My grandmother used to make the most incredible chicken divan, and my mom has carried out that tradition. It's my comfort food. It's amazing how you can almost taste the memories with a dish like that! And the more leftovers, the better.
I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.
One that I know people really like is my Crock-Pot mac and cheese. It's comfort food that's good for Super Bowl parties and easy to make.
My favorite comfort food would have be braised beef. You know, beef, slow-cooked in a Dutch oven or in a slow cooker until it falls apart with simple mushrooms, some onions and lots of fresh thyme and garlic.
The natural sweetness of leeks, with their soft, oniony aroma, makes them the perfect winter comfort food.
The combination of lentils with rice or bulgur is the absolute height of Levantine comfort food. I could eat it every day.
