I have to post my opinion here as a Chef that I am. And I have to tell something about food Nostalgia. I believe it´s somthing that we all suffer at least once in our life and it could last for too long, may be for a whole lifetime. It could start early in our childhood when we every weekend visit our grandma´s house and she was always trying to do her best to make us feel great, at home. And how did she do it? trough her cooking, the meals she prepared for us was always especially and intentionally made for us, her beloved grandson´s. How wasn´t it going to be special? It was drenched in all her tender love an dedication, from the moment she picked the ingredients to the moment she served the table for us. But nothing lasts forever. The unwished end comes, taking this beautiful moments away letting us only the Nostalgia for them. But story always tends to repeat when these children grow up and leave home, the same nostalgia for food appears creating a link that will force us to get back home every weekend to enjoy our mothers food.
Food Nostalgia is the base for a concept that we chefs pretend to manage and we call it CONFORT FOOD. We know if we have achieved the goals we expected if we see in our commensal´s face and eyes that Nostalgia that I mention above and even more if he calls you to his table to tell in choked words: "You know what? This food made remember my weekends at my grandma´s