I had a pizza making party over the weekend to celebrate my birthday. I asked my friends to come prepared to tell me the story about a favorite comfort food. Actually bringing said comfort food was a bonus, but all that was required was the story. Kat told a story about the La Moderna pasta dishes her mom used to make.

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While I might be the only one driving around the Midwest tasting and judging bagel, I know we all feel quite passionately about our comfort foods. While I was in Ann Arbor during the Michigan leg of my Midwest Bagel Quest, my husband Matt and I had dinner with Yeong Kwok, Cathy Kim. Yeong and Matt were college roommates back in the 1980s and he talked about what the word rice means in Korean and how difficult it is to make kimchi. You can hear our conversation below.