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1. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Heidi Bruaw

   Comfort food is really about nostalgia (opens the original)

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   For years, the assumption was that comfort food worked the way any good food works: through taste. But researchers who study why certain dishes soothe people found something different. Four studies published last year in the journal “Cognition and Emotion” showed that nostalgic foods lift people’s mood mainly by making them feel connected to others. The recipe cards are in someone else’s handwriting; the people who wrote them are mostly gone. The cookies are made anyway every year by tho

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2. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Heidi Bruaw

   Beef prices stay high as families head back to school (opens the original)

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   Beef costs more this year, and families feel it right as school starts. Prices are running 11.8% above a year earlier, and the U.S. Department of Agriculture expects the full-year increase to hit 10.7%. That squeeze lands the same weeks families take on a record $43.3 billion in back-to-school spending. Yusra Millenbaugh feeds three teenage boys in Goodyear, Arizona, and goes through 2 to 3 pounds of ground beef most weeks. She has started buying it only when it goes on sale. “Ground beef used

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