S6 Ep 7: Cat Burns, singer

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Platinum-selling singer songwriter Cat Burns cosies up with Grace for a warm plate of nosh and some deep chats. The biggest-selling British female artist of 2022, who won three Brit award nominations after her single Go went viral on TikTok, reveals how she went from shy schoolgirl to stadium gigs in just a few years. While Covid put an end to busking on the South Bank, it opened up another portal on social channels that sent Cat’s star on its rapid ascent. Recently diagnosed as autistic, Cat explains how her relationship with food thrives on predictability and consistency. Yet with a small recipe suggestion from her girlfriend, she had a lightbulb moment – opening up new possibilities. Cat says she doesn’t do small talk, which is more than OK; her big talk is just beautiful.

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:05.0	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian.
0:19.0	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
0:25.7	you cobble together when you curled upon the sofa.
0:29.2	Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid 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 doors.
0:41.0	Hello friends. behind closed door.
0:49.0	Hello friends, you find me today in my bathroom, ready and myself for another comfort eating guest. I always think about beauty when I'm having
0:56.0	someone as fresh-faced and young as incredible songstress cat burns around to my
1:02.3	house. She was only born in the year 2000. For goodness sake.
1:10.0	Now I'm indulging in my own skincare routine here.
1:15.0	It's a multi-step routine.
1:18.0	Only two steps.
1:20.0	I am washing my face with something I've got at Holland and Barrett and then I'm shoving on something that is, to be
1:28.8	honest it's basically glorified Vassily. At my age I have finally realized that none of these potions or serums are going to
1:39.9	turn back the clock on this forehead.
1:45.0	Honestly, the more expensive the bottle,
1:48.0	the more likely it is to give you eczema or just a dose of conjunctivitis. It's the truth.
1:56.8	None of them are going to soften this furrow between my brows,
2:05.4	which if we're very honest I could put a song on.
2:15.0	And this, ladies and gentlemen, is the kind of old woman, common sense that Z do not want to hear, on which let's get to my guest.
2:17.5	She'll be here in a minute.
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