The Comfort Food Cookbook 2013: Recipes brought to you by Blue Mountain Community College Writing Students, Fall 2013

This book grew out of a College Writing assignment—process analysis, if that matters. Each student brought his or her favorite family recipe, one that held fond memories. In other words, comfort food. We used those recipes as the basis for several papers. We wrote about the room in which the we first saw the food produced. We told a story in which the food played a part. And then we broadened the focus and talked about how it is that, while we all have basically the same nutritional needs, we fill those needs in a bewildering variety of ways. We watched Bizarre Foods, with Andrew Zimmern. We researched traditional methods of food preservation. We watched Scrooge, and talked about how Scrooge's character is developed by how he relates to food. And in between, we sampled each others’ comfort foods (extra credit!), thought about food prejudices, and considered what “we are what we eat" really means. Mostly, we learned about the cultures and tastes in our town. And now we’re sharing them with you. Bon appetit!