By Tanner Garrity We all ate a lot of cookies during those first few months of quarantine in 2020. It made sense at the time, as consuming salt, sugar and fat tends to help whenever we’re going through a tough time. The end of a frustrating workday is generally enough qualification for a few slices of pizza, so the advent of a deadly pandemic, we all reasoned, made gorging ourselves perfectly reasonable. But while we may think that comfort food makes us feel better — it’s tasty, it fills us up, it often comes with a side of nostalgia — it’s actually a rather hollow way to treat whatever was ca…