The terminology is called "Comfort Food" when we were little we never called it that, we called it, breakfast, lunch or dinner. Today everything is so complicated. No salt, no sugar, no fat, vegan, raw food, micro biotic, Atkins, and let's not forget about the ever so popular Master Cleanse. We at Cannoli Kings believe in diversity as well and we definitely stay with the times if not ahead of them but  we also believe in vacation. We take vacations in life so why not take a vacation in food. Going back to a time when we had little to worry about, coming home from school and running to the television,  just to watch our favorite show, knowing mom was in the kitchen making some sort of treat. No bills, no rent, no mortgages or workplaces. Well, Cannoli Kings cannot save or fix the problems in the world but we can bring you back home for a while.. Invite over some friends have a party and let us take care of you. Mix and match some of your hometown favorites. Hang out and reminisce, play twister, who cares. Cannoli Kings Catering is the only catering company in Los Angeles serving up some of the finest regional foods from the past. Menus from the 40's, 50's, 60's, 70's, 80's and 90's. We cook today's stuff too but let's not forget where we came from.

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What some people define as "Comfort Foods"...

  "To me, comfort food is something that makes me smile when I eat it. I can close my eyes, and it conjures up wonderful memories. It makes me feel like a warm blanket is wrapped around me. A comfort food can relax me when I'm wound up, or make me feel better when I'm sad. It's something I can savor in smell, taste, texture. Most comfort foods stem from memories of eating them with my family. When I have a bowl of PA Dutch chicken pot pie, for instance, I think of my family, because the recipe has been passed down through the generations.
It's not a very good definition, but I'm not sure you can define it. It's almost an intangible concept."

"Comfort food is food that makes you feel better, makes you feel warmer, happier and that things will be better soon. On a cold gray winter day (the entire month of February for example) a bowl of homemade chicken soup with dumplings is the best thing - just knowing that I've got it on the stove makes me feel better.
Foods that make you smile when you see them, before you've even had your first bite, work too. Peanut butter cookies with the sugared fork marks, especially warm, works for me - that's the first type of cookie I ever made.
Foods that someone you love used to make for you is a comfort. My husband's grandmother used to make a German Chocolate Cake for his birthday every year. She is gone but I have the recipe. When I make it, we smile and say "Just like Grandma's", and it almost is - it doesn't have quite as much love in it! We had dinner at a restaurant here in town recently and our entree was duck - now she never made duck for us but this dish tasted like someone had spent the day in the    kitchen cooking it. It was fabulous and had a flavor-note that reminded us of Grandma. That was comforting."

"      Comfort food, aside from associating it with childhood tends to be non-aggressive food. (Notice, I said tends, I do know of some people who declare 3-alarm chile to be comforting but I'm going with larger populations.) Starches often provide the dominent note, but slow cooked meat may also provide a soft enough texture. Some examples include jook, mac and cheese, pot roast, chicken and dumplings, pudding, Jell-O, rice pudding, mashed potatoes (Kartoffelbrei if you want in in German, away from the anglo reference) etc."

"Comfort food is food you don't have to think about. If you can commune with a food so completely that it is all feeling, all taste, all mouth feel, that is comfort food. If you have to wonder which fork to use, it ain't comfort food"

"    I think of "heavy" foods as comfort foods. Macaroni and cheese, really creamy mashed potatoes, and I'm surprised that nobody mentioned meatloaf. Another thing that's comfort food to me is really good tuna salad on a toasted bagel, open faced with good slices of tomato. Mmmm.Oh, and one more -- a really perfect hamburger and French fries. It sometimes just does the trick of what comfort food is supposed to do -- comfort."

"This is what I find so amazing about food. I think of light foods as comfort foods. Things that lift me, like pho, sushi, spicy grilled chicken on rice with a fried egg (ok, not so light, but still...).I have to agree about the burger and fries. I've been going through a lot of medical things lately, and each time we leave the doctor my wife takes me for a burger, fries and a shake."

"Comfort food to me is food for the soul. When the weather is dreary, when I feel down, or not well, and needed something that's nourishing and makes me feel whole again.

"Comfort food is what you want to eat when life is lousy because you know eating it will make everything better"

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