From the archive (season 2): Dave Myers, hairy biker

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

This week, the world learned of the sad passing of a true British icon, TV cook and hairy biker, Dave Myers. To celebrate his life, we wanted to bring you this episode from January 2022 where Dave tells Grace about – ironically – losing all his hair aged eight, his years as a makeup artist, working in the steelyards of Barrow-in-Furness, and the comfort foods that have seen him through it all

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:06.0	Hello friends, it's Grace here.
0:09.0	Now, as some of you might know, Dave Myers, better known as one of the Harry Bikers and a friend of Comfort-Eing
0:16.7	podcast, passed away this week. He had been living with cancer for a few years. I know I'm not the only one flawed by this
0:28.4	news and I'm sending my condolences to his family, his friends, and of course to sigh.
0:35.6	I will always remember the day Dave Myers rang my front doorbell,
0:41.8	walked into my lounge and came to talk to me for the pod.
0:45.6	I can see him right now how dapper he looked that day and how starstruck we all were he was there and of course the stories he told us.
0:57.6	I wanted to re-share Dave's episode with you now as he is so honest about his childhood and career and his
1:05.6	friendship with sigh and I think this gives you a good idea of the extraordinary life
1:11.6	he had. Ladies and gentlemen this is Dave Myers.
1:17.6	Just a warning there is some strong language in this episode.
1:21.1	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from The Guardian.
1:25.0	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
1:32.0	Because even as a restaurant critic, to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
1:32.8	Because even as a restaurant critic,
1:35.1	I believe the food that matters most
1:37.6	is often that snack you cobble together
1:40.3	when you're curled upon the sofa. Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
1:49.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.
1:54.3	Picture this.
1:59.3	You're at the beach this summer and the only Wi-Fi available is from Tony's phone.
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