Picture it: youve just broken up. Eyes red from crying, you listen to One is the Loneliest Number on endless repeat; no matter what the season, every time you step outside it rains. In a daze, you stumble through your kitchen, and inexorably you are drawn to the freezer; to the third drawer down; to the ice cream. Of course the slightly freezer-burnt Mint Chocolate Chip tastes good, it always does, but with every creamy bite, you find yourself thinkingfor the moment, at leastthat everything is going to be okay.
This all too familiar scenario is tied into a grand human tradition: comfort food. The fact that we seem to gravitate towards certain foods in times of grief is nothing new, of course (in fact, the term comfort food gained official recognition from Websters in 1972 and we’ve written an article about them once before), but recent research sheds interesting light on the relationship between grief and that fourth chocolate chip cookie.
Why do we want certain foods when were sad? Common wisdom dictates that whatever comforted you as a child makes a quick, soothing fallback when youre an adult. If mom gave you pickles to help with teething, its likely...
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