Comfort Food
by Karen Adams Comes Home
Comfort Cuisine offers catering and fresh,
style. Menus can be prepared for specific dietary needs:
vegetarian, diabetic, Weight Watchers, heart-healthy, allergic,
wholesome, home-cooked meals for
and others. The changing menu, always open to suggestion,
families too busy to cook it themselves.
combines flavors such as pork tenderloin with pear chutney,
roasted chicken breast with ginger-apricot sauce, and wild
rice with walnuts and apples.
G
rowing up in Burlington, North Carolina, Jonathan
Kenny was always underfoot when his mother and
Kenny is always inventing
grandmother were in the kitchen. So they taught him
with what’s fresh and in sea-
how to cook and soon he was working alongside them. The
son.
result of Kenny’s early training is Comfort Cuisine, “slow food
Catering for special oc-
made the old-fashioned way.” Chef Kenny, now 37, cooks for
casions and corporate events
other families the way his family cooked for him.
is also available. Recently
His signature business is pre-made home cooking for
Kenny added “Instead of
busy families. “People are so busy these days, and it’s hard
Flowers” -- a food service
to make a healthy, delicious meal when you’re pressed for
for those moments when we
time,” says Kenny. A complete Comfort Cuisine family meal
usually send flowers: ill-
costs $30 - $40, feeds four to six people, and is made with
nesses, funerals, the birth of a
fresh, wholesome, seasonal ingredients and no preservatives.
baby. “People always need to
“It’s difficult to make a meal like that for yourself for that
eat at times like that, and it’s
Chef Johnathan Kenny
price,” he remarks. “And we do all the work!” Diners can
nice to have a good prepared
pick up their meals or have them delivered to their homes.
meal to offer.”
Soon Kenny hopes to have central drop-off points where
Trained as a chef in Greensboro and Raleigh, Kenny
several families can pick up their meals at the same time. “It’s
arrived in Roanoke in 2002 to help bring his New Orleans-
slow food fast,” he says with a laugh.
flavored style to the menu of Blue Magnolia restaurant. After
With his partner and business manager, Arlene Fields,
a while he recognized a niche for on-the-go families who
Kenny offers dishes that range from Cajun and Creole to
found it difficult to feed themselves good, wholesome, nutri-
Asian and Mediterranean to good old-fashioned Southern-
tious food while juggling their busy schedules. He branched
out on his own, and Comfort Cuisine was born. “We use
local ingredients whenever we can, and want to grow that
INSTEAD OF FLOWERS
more,” explains Kenny, who points out that he’s expanding
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his sources to include local and seasonal produce, meat, and
other goods.
Let us do the cooking, it’s more
Today, Kenny exchanges recipes with his mother, Ann
affordable than you think.
Kenny, who is a baker for Whole Foods near Chapel Hill.
“She still cooks for me, and now I cook for her, too,” he says.
Healthy Family-Style Meals
“It’s always been a central part of my life.”
made from whole foods
540-427-1244
For more information on Comfort Cuisine, located at 3322
chefjon@comfortcuisineva.com
www.comfortcuisineva.com
Garden City Blvd. SE in Roanoke, call 540-427-1244 or visit
comfortcuisineva.com.
CATERING FOR ALL YOUR NEEDS FROM EXCLUSIVE PARTIES
AND WEDDINGS TO CORPORATE LUNCHEONS.
Southwestern Virginia
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