These Gingery Soba Noodles May Just Defy Definition For Yotam Ottolenghi, all food is comfort food. But this quick-to-prepare dish is especially sustaining. Soba noodles with ginger broth and crunchy ginger.Credit...Christopher Simpson for The New York Times. Food Stylist: Simon Andrews. Prop Stylist: Paige Hicks. LONDON — Comfort food is hard to pin down. It’s as slippery as noodles, with any attempt to characterize it often countered by an exception. Cambridge Dictionary defines it as “the type of food that people eat when they are sad or worried, often sweet food or food that people ate as children.”