This is the Guardian.

I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the guardian.

A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life. Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack

you cobble together 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.

Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.

Hello friends. Now whilst the comfort eating team are riding the big one at Blackpool Pleasure Beach during our August

maxi break. I thought that we could serve you up a sprinkling of my favorite

episodes. These are the ones that I would tell you that you really need to hear to get

an essence of what the heck my show is all about. Chatting, snacking, laughing, life, love, death and how long potato waffles need in the toaster.

All the important things are covered.

Self-esteem, Rebecca Lucy Taylor as she's also known, arrived on comfort eating like a cannonball.

She's a musician, a pop icon, a force of nature, she is a guru to millions of women. The woman is a grafter and this was

recorded just before she pulled a starring role in Cabaret the musical out of the bag.

I will be back in September.

This is self-esteem.

Please be aware that today's episode contains some swearing.

Hello friends, in the spirit of today's guest you find me preparing a little light lunch which prioritises pleasure and I've settled on a snack

that one of my favorite comfort eating guests Deborah Meadon she taught me this. It's a vegetarian sausage and I'm smearing it liberally with

Marmite. Yes, I know it sounds strange, but it is the ultimate umami hit.

See Deborah went much heavier.

She went much heavier.

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