Reading food keeps us healthy and energetic. IT can also do more than that. The article below from a food magazine discusses the idea of comfort food. Before you read the article, think about the following questions. What do you think the article will talk about according to the title? What foods can have an impact on your feelings? Comfort food. Whenever I feel lonely, I have a secret recipe that never fails, rice, milk and sugar, cooked low and slow. No matter how bad my mood is, that perfect combination is always enough to lift my spirits. Sometimes the smell alone can do the trick, not to mention the lovely creamy flavor, which works like a time machine, immediately transporting me back to my Sunny childhood with pleasure. I remember the lazy sunday afternoon I used to spend in the warmth of my grandmother flat, listening to her wonderful stories and greatly eating ball after bowl of her delicious rice, putting I take my time over every spoon fall, gently rolling the silky dessert around my mouth and enjoying the perfect marriage of rice and milk. Before I know IT, i'm happy again. My experience with rice putting illustrates the unique power of comfort food in its broader sense. Comfort food refers to any food that makes us feel Better. In this article, we will talk about a particular type of comfort food whose power mainly lies and associations that calls to mind IT often makes up for bad feelings by helping us recall happy memories of the people. Things are places we love. Our comfort foods are highly individual. They vary from person to person depending on our own unique experiences that have shaped our lives. If we grow up eating certain foods in our family, then those foods tend to be linked with positive emotions. For example, we often connect chicken soup with a happy childhood, and its flavor becomes tied up with the feeling of being taken care of. When we eat IT again, we unlock memories of a time when we were loved and looked after, and this cheers us up. The feeling of happiness and sense of belonging can become particularly important for people who move away from their home country. According to some food experts, there are some aspects of culture that people will lose right away, but with food, there are more opportunities to connect to memory, family and place. IT is hardest to give up the food that you grow up with. Of course, each personnel comfort food largely depends on where they come from. For chinese, IT might be a plate of dumplings with a sauce of vinegar, and for a native of the U. K, IT might be the classic fish and chips served hot, salty and sour. One mouth full of comfort food takes us back to our cultural roots, giving us the taste of home that we cry out for and relieving feelings of homesickness. That's certainly true for me. Comfort food tastes good, and by building an emotional bond with our happy memories always makes us feel good. IT isn't just a bowl of noodles or chicken soup. It's food for the soul.