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Deutsch: Seelenessen / Español: Comida reconfortante / Português: Comida reconfortante / Français: Comfort food / Italiano: Cibo confortante /
Comfort food refers to a food that is simply prepared and gives a sense of wellbeing. It is typically food with a high sugar or carbohydrate content that is associated with childhood or with home cooking.
Comfort Food refers to a spirit and soul-satisfying food which may bring up comforting memories of particular times or people. My comfort food is Tortang Patatas and Arroz Caldo. It brings back many memories of my childhood and many Christmases with my whole family, especially my father and my mother who did everything and sacrifice a lot so we can all survive.
Comice Pear (Scientific Binomial Name: Pyrus communis) refers to a variety of pear with a large green and yellow fruit that looks like it is blushing. Its flesh is sweet and delicious raw. Comice Pears are eaten fresh, in salads or use in fruit baskets. A good Comice Pear is that of medium-sized or larger with no bruises and only a few minor scuff marks. The coloring will be green-yellow with an occasional red blush.
To store Comice Pears: It should be handled with care, especially when fully ripe. It should be ripened in a cool, dark place, and may only be refrigerated for a few days.
Comida Criolla (Creolle Food) refers to the name given to traditional Peruvian Dishes.
Comidas Tipicas is the Bolivian term which means "Traditional Dishes"
Commandaria refers to the legendary wine from Cyprus. Its color is warm, golden to ruby, its aroma is complex and passionate, its taste is sweet, its aftertaste is everlasting. Commandaria wine is old and unique that Cypriots traded it for centuries to the most demanding consumers of the known world and which other winemakers attempted to copy on many occasions. Commandaria wine carries with it the centuries old culture of the Cypriot rural society and is closely tied to the commercial activities of the island’s traders who loaded it on ships for export to the most demanding European markets of the time. Commandaria thrived during the Middle Ages, suffered under the dark period of the Ottoman rule, became a forgotten wine during the latter part of the 20th century but survived, remaining unspoiled by all foreign cultural influences, standing out today as the flagship of our vine and wine heritage.
Commandaria as a "legendary-wine" was a statement verified by the selection of vintage 1223 among the top ten wines of the past 1,000 years. The competition, BBC – one thousand years best wine competition, characterized Commandaria as "a powerful sweet wine from Cyprus" that won the first wine competition, La Bataille des Vins, organised by the French king, Philip Augustus.
Commandaria is made from the blend of two indigenous varieties, Mavro and Xynisteri and it is by no chance that only these varieties are suitable for its making.
Commandaria is a sweet, desert wine, characterized by a high alcoholic content of 15% and a notable richness in natural sugars derived exclusively from the grapes used. The critical factor in the serving of Commandaria is temperature. Commandaria brings out all its aroma and flavour when drunk well chilled at 6 - 9°C. Within this temperature range, ideal for most dessert wines, Commandaria reveals all its merits and at the same time conceals any likely "flaws", such as the presence of a high alcohol content and its volatile acidity which are more easily discernible when the wine is served at temperatures exceeding 9 - 10°C. Like all sweet wines, Commandaria is served in small stemmed glasses with a comparatively short stem and a long cup, with inwardly sloping sides to retain the wine’s rich bouquet.