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00:54 Feb 5, 2021
English to Catalan translations [PRO]
Medical - Psychology
Additional field(s): General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters, Medical: Health Care, Nutrition, Slang
English term or phrase: comfort food
Definition from TermCoord:
Certain foods provide a sentimental effect when they are consumed. Comfort foods make us feel good because of the meaning that we give them. We associate dishes with a family member, a significant person, a suggestive moment that we lived, and we tend to “use” food to find the scent of this or that experience again. Comfort food is linked to a personal feeling but also a cultural and historical one. It depends on the ingredients and the habits that we grew up with, in a specific country at a particular historical moment; it shapes our identity.

Example sentence(s):
  • But digging into comfort foods all winter — like a savory beef stew, spicy spaghetti and meatballs, macaroni and cheese, fluffy pancakes, gooey pizza, or buttery mashed potatoes — comes with health risks. Health Harvard
  • While it would be presumptuous to award pizza the prize of being America’s number one comfort food without an appropriate census count, pizza being on a shortlist of America’s favorite foods would not be a shocking discovery. Giordano's
  • Binge eating on comfort food can therefore indicate other issues that are physical, psychological, and indicative of depression and past trauma. Desert Hope
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Summary of translations provided
5 +1menjar reconfortant
Sandra Cirera-García
5aliment reconfortant
Aïda Garcia Pons


  

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menjar reconfortant


Definition from Andreu:
El menjar reconfortant és un aliment que, més enllà de les seves propietats nutricionals i gastronòmiques, proporciona un valor nostàlgic o sentimental.

Example sentence(s):
  • Aprèn a preparar menjar reconfortant amb guisats i plats de cullera vegans, que et van sorprendre! - Cookiteca  
Sandra Cirera-García
United Kingdom
Local time: 06:05
Native speaker of: Native in SpanishSpanish, Native in CatalanCatalan
PRO pts in category: 4

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aliment reconfortant


Definition from Optimot:
Aliment que proporciona una sensació de benestar i confort, i que sovint està associat a un record agradable.

Tret de l'Pptimot

Example sentence(s):
  • "... aquests mateixos aliments reconfortants provoquen una sobreproducció d'insulina..." Del llibre: Diet Coach, El teu entrenador personal per seguir qualsevol dieta, de Kimberly Willis. Editat per Rosa dels Vents - Diet Coach  
  • "Tal com explico al meu llibre Totes les sopes, aquest aliment reconfortant, a base d'aigua o brou, és segurament el més antic de la història." De l'article: Antic i reconfortant, del diari Regió 7, autor: Jaume Fàbrega - Regió7.cat  

Explanation:
Crec que segons el context es pot fer servir menjar reconfornat o aliment reconfortant. En principi jo sempre optaria per aliment, si més no, en textos més formals, sobretot perquè és el terme acceptat per l'optimot.
Entenc que l'ús de la llengua i el cos lingüístic regulador del català no sempre coincideixen, i per això crec que també s'ha de poder utilitzar "menjar" en textos i blogs més col·loquials, o "plat reconfortant" com per exemple quan es parla del xef X famós per preparar "plats reconfortants".
Aïda Garcia Pons
United States
Local time: 22:05
Native speaker of: Native in CatalanCatalan, Native in SpanishSpanish
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