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Comfort food: It's just about anything you want it to be -- and it doesn't even have to be nutritious

Levy, Robyn

2000

Overview

[Vanny] says that as a child she was sick with a cold \"and that slick stuff slid down my throat as sublimely as the cool strokes of my mother's hand on my feverish forehead slid down into my soul.\" Obviously, her mom did not raise a Jell-O connoisseur, because she divulges, \"the flavour doesn't matter [as long as it's red] and it must be buried in whipped Pet Milk. Not whipped cream, not Cool- Whip, not any of those squirt-from-a-can mutations.\" Vanny grieves her mother's death, but says she still sees \"her beautiful face every time I see Bill Cosby hustling Jell-O.\" Pass the Pet Milk, please. The one and only time she prepared Pasta with Cocks Combs Sauce was enough. Based on a 16th century Catherine d'Medici recipe, this eccentric dish calls for cocks combs, unborn eggs, chicken livers and ground veal. Like [Umberto Menghi], [Karen Barnaby] also caters to chocolate aficionados and includes herself in the majority of women who crave sweets. In an attempt to eschew sugar, Barnaby sometimes slurps Splenda-sweetened Jell-O instead of shortcakes or puddings. Color Photo: Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun / Comfort Food ; Color Photo: Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun / Comfort Food ; Color Photo: Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun / Kraft Dinner ; Color Photo: Peter Battistoni, Vancouver Sun / Pancakes ;

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