if we’ve learned anything about ourselves during the past two years, it’s that we turn to carbs when the going gets rough. Ask anyone around you to name their favorite comfort foods. I’m guessing the responses are similar to the foods our editors and recipe developers named when we started planning this issue: dumplings, pancakes, bagels, rice, bread, mac and cheese…the stuff that makes us happy. You know what didn’t come up? Salad.
The pandemic seems to have reset our dietary habits to somewhere around the early ?90s, when carbs were the answer to everything. One of my many food-service jobs during that time was at a half-deli, half-yogurt shop in Chapel Hill, NC, and I fully did my part to serve Generation Carb: I’d slather nonfat cream cheese onto huge…
