Comfort for the Coast: Chicken Soup with Herbed Dumplings

Nov. 15, 2005 — -- Linda Storey's recipe is a finalist in "Emeril's Comfort for the Coast" contest. The winner of the contest will travel to New York next week to prepare his or her recipe on "Good Morning America." The contest focuses on comfort food recipes because many people turn to food in times of crisis and chef Emeril Lagasse lived in New Orleans. He owns three restaurants in the city.

I am originally from the South. I was born in Alabama, lived most of my life in Tennessee, spent my first year of marriage in Lake Charles, La. and lived in South Carolina before moving to California in 1995. I have family still living in Alexandria, La. They have been helping in the hurricane relief efforts even as they themselves have been without power. Chicken and dumplings and homemade chicken soup are two of my family's favorite comfort foods. This recipe combines them both.

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