According to a recent study, comfort foods don’t actually give you all that much comfort. (There’s a simple solution to this problem: More comfort food.)

+ NYT: Off the drugs, Onto the Cupcakes.

+ Why do Americans chill their eggs when most of the world doesn’t?

+ Boston Globe: “For an administration that loves to talk about the importance of local food, especially when it comes from the celebrated White House vegetable garden, it turns out that the Obama White House makes it nearly impossible to find the source of its coffee.”