A Comfort Eating Christmas

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 24 December 2024

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Christmas has arrived at Comfort Eating HQ, so join Grace as she joyfully wallows in her annual Christmas baking session while musing on her favourite Comfort Eating yuletide memories. From multi-Grammy winner Gregory Porter on his mum’s festive cook-ups, to baking extraordinaire Nadiya Hussain on her childhood turkey midnight feasts, plus Craig David, Michael Ball and many more

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.6	I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.
0:13.6	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.5	Because even as a restaurant critic,
0:21.8	I believe the food that matters most
0:24.1	is often that snack you cobble together
0:26.8	when you're curled upon the sofa.
0:29.3	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid
0:32.6	on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed on.
0:43.9	Hello, friends.
0:45.8	We find ourselves in the eye of a storm on the precipice of the big one.
0:51.3	That's right.
0:52.2	It's Christmas.
0:53.5	And I've done what I normally do at Christmas
0:56.0	as a classic introverted extrovert. I've taken myself off into the kitchen to do a little
1:02.3	bit of baking. And while I do that, I'm going to listen back to my favourite Christmassy moments
1:09.4	from the slew of celebrity guests who've come to my house to share their comfort foods with me over the years.
1:17.1	Okay, so I'm going to be knocking up today one of my all-time favourite Christmas recipes.
1:24.4	This is Nigel Slater's ginger biscuits.
1:28.0	If you're listening to this, Nigel, yes, I do want you on this podcast.
1:32.3	Can you hear me?
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