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Why recreating childhood comfort foods can increase homesickness

I moved away from my hometown and I keep trying to recreate the comfort foods from there but they never taste right and it makes me more homesick than before I started.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Failed attempts at sensory time travel through food can deepen our sense of displacement and loss.

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