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 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 door.

Hello friends. Now you find me on a chair sorting through my bookshelves which are three rows deep. I am chucking things out.

Okay, actually I am releasing them back into the world.

Look, I have spent four years telling myself

I needed a bigger place to live and that life would be better

if I just had more space and I kept saying it and I believed it and then I

realized what I actually needed to do was just get rid of about three quarters of the things that

I have amassed during this lifetime so far. How about these cookbooks?

Full of complex 14-stage recipes. I have to accept I'm never going to make these. What about my old cross trainer that I really only

used to dry knickers on? It's just an indoor washing line people. Swedish death cleaning

cleaning out your house through the eyes of the people you love

who'd come over after you've died,

which things would they actually take away? What would they want?

I'm telling you, they would want absolutely none of my stuff. A few pairs of dangly earrings

maybe, a couple of pairs of shoes. The rest will be going in a skip. Okay, the bookshelves are looking better.

Secretly, between me and you, while I'm at it, I am keeping the clever books books I'm putting them at the front so that

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