Children's food for adults

Comfort food is tasty but often full of carbohydrates. Are they bad and do they make us fat? Not at all. Carbs give us energy and make us happy, and this has been scientifically proven. Three dishes to test it for yourself.
Recipe Meike Krüger | Image: René Mesman

Nothing is more comforting than a plate of pasta. Except wine, in its time. That is why we are so pleased with the new cookbook Carbs, carbs, carbs by Meike Krüger. Pasta, potatoes, noodles, rice, pulses, bread and dough play a starring role in it. And those foods contain a lot of carbohydrates, carbs in English. Meike herself says: 'Carbohydrates are the perfect comfort food. Not for nothing do most people when they are sick or sad long for foods from their childhood, like pasta with tomato sauce or mashed potatoes with an egg.' But why do we actually crave those? Meike: 'Carbohydrates give us energy to think, talk and move, and perhaps most importantly, they make us happy.'