Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody's Looking

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Comfort eating with Grace Dent is all about what you eat when comfortable at home but from your favourite celebrities’ perspectives. Grace meets former athlete and current House of Lords peer Tanni Grey-Thompson, who introduces her to a snack less highbrow than you might expect. kids who claim to have never read anything longer than a text message are ploughing through my books nagging me for the next one. Join Guardian food critic and her celebrity guests, as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food.

Commissioning editor Mo Hafeez acquired world English rights, including audio, from Cathryn Summerhayes at Curtis Brown. She joins Grace to discuss the perils of snacking while breastfeeding, the dangers of fizzy paté, and the importance of dining out alone. Davies’s butter pepper rice to Scarlett Moffat’s crushed Wotsit-topped beans on toast and many, many more . Comfort Eating – alongside all the excellent snack chat – is a beautiful and evocative account of her childhood and caring for her dying mother.Grace and Mary share their love of evenings on the sofa, scouse dads and how they coped after losing their mums to breast cancer.

Welcome to Comfort Eating with Grace Dent, the food podcast from The Guardian that we’re proud to sponsor. Join her and celebrity guests as they reveal the comfort foods that have seen them through in the third series You can see Grace Dent on Comfort. Now that Dent makes her living as a restaurant critic and television personality, firmly ensconced in the London liberal elite, all this might feel a bit put on, except that her affection is tangible, her humour tweezer-sharp and the writing as strong as a Christmas stilton. Ive watched her on Masterchef for years, praising a well cooked guinea fowl, decadant chcolate tortes and frowning when presented with undercooked. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.She tells Grace about secret drinking as a school student, living in a haunted hotel in Donegal, and her dad’s ‘awful’ cooking. He tells Grace about growing up in a conservative religious household, being brought home by the police.

The pair talk about his life – after she has to run to the kitchen to spit out the food he brought round. I’ve never tabbed a book before and I was tabbing away at all the things I just found relatable or things I absolutely love! She pops round to Grace’s to discuss her teenage days on the set of Grange Hill, how she fell in love at the Europol canteen, and the importance of Mr Kipling. The book is written brilliantly and the introduction was quite emotional about the death of Grace’s mum, but there was many memories that food can bring back to you.

Along the way, she catches up with some famous friends to chat about their own favourites – from Jo Brand’s fried bread sandwich and Russell T. She hosts the podcast Comfort Eating, which was named the Podcast of the Year at the 2022 British Media Awards. When she's not writing comedy Grace is to be found 'faffing about on the Internet' or 'faffing about in the garden or kitchen' or 'just 'faffing about generally. Shirley’s become TV royalty as head judge on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, but she’d already been. Food is never just food; as any vegetarian who found herself eating a pork pie before a 20-week pregnancy scan will know.