Comfort Food: Amazing Friends and the Everyday Stories That Happen Around Food

by Christine Mabon

Comfort Amazing Friends and the Everyday Stories That Happen Around Friendship is a collection of personal essays about friendship and the foods that brought us together. The book identifies five kinds of friends and is separated into five sections, each one corresponding to one of the five friends and the course of a five-course meal that corresponds to that friend. The friend whom we turn to for encouragement is the appetizer course; the younger and knowledgeable friend who brings vitality and fresh perspectives into our lives is the salad course; the friend who is there to anchor us in times of uncertainty is the entree course; our older, wiser source of wisdom flowing into our lives is the beverage course and the friend whom we turn to when we want to kick back and have sweet fun times finishes our meal as our dessert course. When these friends bring it all together, we enjoy the banquet of life.

348 pages, Kindle Edition

Published November 26, 2019

Reviews

[Moon · Rating 2 out of 5]

I picked up this book to fulfill a prompt in my StoryGraph reading challenge: "a non-fiction book about food and/or drink." Honestly, I chose it blindly since I rarely read non-fiction.

Based on the title, I thought it would be a perfect fit for the prompt. I wasn’t entirely right, though. While the book does talk about food, it focuses more on the author's relationships with the people in her life. I enjoyed a few of her stories—her long life experience and all she’s been through are genuinely inspiring—but more often than not, I found it hard to relate to her. Hence, the 2-star rating. I don’t hate the book; I just didn’t enjoy it as much as I hoped. That said, she seems like a wonderful person tho!!!