comfort food

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00:56 Feb 3, 2021
English to Norwegian translations [PRO]
Medical - Psychology
Additional field(s): General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters, Medical: Health Care, Nutrition, Slang
English term or phrase: comfort food
Definition from TermCoord:
Certain foods provide a sentimental effect when they are consumed. Comfort foods make us feel good because of the meaning that we give them. We associate dishes with a family member, a significant person, a suggestive moment that we lived, and we tend to “use” food to find the scent of this or that experience again. Comfort food is linked to a personal feeling but also a cultural and historical one. It depends on the ingredients and the habits that we grew up with, in a specific country at a particular historical moment; it shapes our identity.

Example sentence(s):
  • But digging into comfort foods all winter — like a savory beef stew, spicy spaghetti and meatballs, macaroni and cheese, fluffy pancakes, gooey pizza, or buttery mashed potatoes — comes with health risks. Health Harvard
  • While it would be presumptuous to award pizza the prize of being America’s number one comfort food without an appropriate census count, pizza being on a shortlist of America’s favorite foods would not be a shocking discovery. Giordano's
  • Binge eating on comfort food can therefore indicate other issues that are physical, psychological, and indicative of depression and past trauma. Desert Hope
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4Trøstemat
Ronny Nielsen


  

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Trøstemat


Definition from Godt.no:
Trøstemat er mat som inntas når man føler seg sliten, lei eller sint. Kvinner har en tendens til å foretrekke søte matvarer, mens menn gjerne vil ha den fete maten...

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  • Trøstemat: – Det ligger i den menneskelige natur å være tiltrukket av det som er forbudt - dn.no  
Ronny Nielsen
Dominican Republic
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