Congee is a rice porridge with many forms and names but it s always comforting TODAY 3/12/2021 Maura Hohman
For Asian Americans, congee is often comfort food when you re sick. As the child of a Filipino immigrant, I ate congee that my mother prepared when I couldn t keep down anything else. It was a plain meal, for better or worse, that warmed the whole body and left you craving more.
When I asked my aunt in Manila to share her method of cooking rice porridge for this story, she responded, Why congee? There s been a heightened interest in the dish online recently, perhaps because we re all seeking comfort in new ways in this pandemic.
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