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Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody's Looking

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They talk about his childhood, memories of prison, cooking for his husband – and the comfort foods that have seen him through. Ive watched her on Masterchef for years, praising a well cooked guinea fowl, decadant chcolate tortes and frowning when presented with undercooked lamb and watery sauces. She transported me back to my Teesside childhood with her culinary tales of comfort eating excellence that sparked so many memories. Comfort Eating – alongside all the excellent snack chat – is a beautiful and evocative account of her childhood and caring for her dying mother. Grace’s guest on the season finale of Comfort Eating is the Dragons’ Den star and business owner Deborah Meaden.

The legendary drum’n’bass DJ Goldie has flown into London for summer performance dates, but first he stops by Grace’s living room. After treating Grace to a two-course surprise snack, Tamsin talks about growing up with an older dad, her secret Friday Night Dinner food strategies and the strange moments of joy to be found within grief. Not only did this book make me incredibly hungry for a veritable buffet of beige (god bless British tapas), but I tripped and fell enough to subscribe to Grace's podcast and become even more convinced that Cadbury Dairy Milk, Tayto Crisps and Guinness may be the meal of of the Gods. This is a book that’s not just about comfort but also sadness, suffering and grief; the first series of Comfort Food was recorded just after Dent had nursed her mother during the last weeks of her life, and there is a tinge of heartache to much of what’s described here. I listened to Comfort Eating on audio and Grace’s passion for food, from supermarket bought meals to Michelin-started quality, shines right through.

I absolutely loved this book, essentially a love letter to all the foods we’re told we should feel guilty about eating - (white) bread, (white) pasta, butter, cheese, potatoes.

Mae tells Grace about the childhood joy of a freshly made souvlaki, the role cooking played in their recovery from drug addiction, and their Netflix series Feel Good. Chippy teas, gas fires, formidable older female relatives, Saturday morning telly, sliced bread, pyjamas, pebble dash, margarine and wind-whipped beaches smelling of vinegar are everywhere in this book. It's reassuring that the food critic for a national newspaper can still enjoy white sliced bread and Dairylea triangles.Loved all the references to 70s and 80s food trends, packaging and advertising - stuff that I’d been given growing up and forgotten about…Country Life butter advert still making me chuckle. And, of course, she reveals what she scoffs from the fridge after long days on set Follow Grace Dent as she enters the Australian jungle for the latest series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here! He tells Grace about growing up as one of seven, coping with stage fright through booze, learning to be comfortable in restaurants in his 40s, and the comfort foods that have seen him through it all.

The book is a wonderfully scrumptious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us. She talks to Laura Whitmore about her childhood in Ireland, being a young journalist in London, Love Island, and the comfort foods that have. Join Guardian food critic and her celebrity guests, as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food. In her new book Grace Dent explores the particular way in which we all, from time to time, eat for comfort. He talks about his favourite Christmas presents, the magic of childhood Blockbuster trips, his strange times in Miami, and the comfort foods that have seen him through.

Potato waffles with spaghetti hoops, fried bread sandwiches, beans on toast with crushed Wotsits; starchy, dripping, saturated morsels of pure, vitamin-free delight. Bringing lashings of comfort and joy to Grace’s house for the final episode of this season is the legendary jazz singer Gregory Porter. Sometimes we eat for pleasure, sometimes we eat for fuel, to feel better, out of boredom, because we’re sexually frustrated, sad, or any number of other reasons. 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. So grab a plate and pull up a chair: unfussy, honest and filled to the brim with heartwarming stories and comfort food tales, Comfort Eating is the perfect treat for food lovers everywhere.

Next over to Grace’s house is the former long jumper Greg Rutherford, who’s won gold medals at Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth level. For the third episode of season three of Comfort Eating, Grace welcomes the Ridley Road, Ray Donovan and Sherlock actor Eddie Marsan round to hers. It's a paean to lost times, when children went out to play all day, and school dinners nationwide seemed to feature chocolate slab with "mint sauce" (blancmange), amongst other things.Cosying up with Grace to launch a new season of Comfort Eating is none other than the queen of baking and all our hearts – Nadiya Hussain. A crisp sandwich with lots of butter, pot noodle sandwich 🤤 I also just love a huge bowl of cereal sometimes and that’s my comfort. As she explores her go-to comfort foods through a series of joyous encounters, she catches up with famous friends to discover their secret snacks - from Jo Brand's fried bread sandwich and Russel T Davies butter pepper rice to Scarlett Moffat's crushed Wotsits-topped beans on toast and many, many more . Jon’s best known for going on adventures with unlikely people, culminating in hit books such as The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test. It's comfort in book form, it's like having a natter with someone who is older and wiser but doesn't get funny when you suggest eating like a normal human being.

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