S6, Ep 8: Tom Kerridge, chef

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2024

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

Comfort Eating’s culinary standards might have been permanently raised after two-Michelin-star chef Tom Kerridge’s visit. But he’s not exactly one to show off. Growing up in Gloucester, Tom always wanted to recreate the homely meals he’d find at his local pub or at his mum’s on Sundays. With a brief detour on to the acting stage, Tom started his career working at some of the country’s top restaurants. In the rock’n’roll era of fine dining, suddenly it was cool to be working in a restaurant late at night. But as Tom and Grace discuss, a world of late hours and excess triggered multiple health problems for him. Going sober and solo, Tom started running his own businesses and success quickly followed. So what exactly does a top chef snack on when they’re not winning awards? You might be surprised …

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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. A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.0	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack that
0:25.8	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 door.
0:51.0	Hello friends. I'm standing in my living room waiting for my guest today. I am looking up at a large dark hole in the ceiling. It is not
0:57.2	at all glamorous. I can actually see the waste pipe of the toilet. What's happened here is that my shower just above where the guests
1:09.1	normally sit it has been leaking for years and there has been a very genuine threat that the entire
1:17.2	shower unit was suddenly going to plummet and just hit somebody. In fact all of last autumn I had a fear it would happen
1:25.8	right during an interview with Tom Kerridge. It was never Gregory Porter, it was never John Ronson for some reason always Tom. Well he's coming today and he is in look
1:39.9	Because I have taken this bathroom situation by the hands. I am choosing tiles right now for my new project.
1:48.0	It is literally all I talk about right now. No, no, come back. Honestly, I'm not that boring. Here's the problem. I am never
1:56.9	going to feel grown up enough to choose tiles. Is that just me? It just feels very serious. It feels like a very forever thing. It's like getting a tattoo. It'd be easy to get rid of a tattoo.
2:10.0	Every time I sit down and have a wee for the next 10 years, I'm going to look at these tiles.
2:16.2	My top tip is don't ask anyone else's opinions on the tiles that you find.
2:22.4	Don't show anyone, just do it. on the
2:25.0	opinions on the tiles that you find. Don't show anyone, just do it, just go and get them.
2:26.0	They'll say that they don't like them.
2:28.0	My man saw some lovely ones I found the other day and he said they look like acne,
2:31.0	and then I was back to square one. A man who I know could
2:36.0	pick tiles with confidence and a plon is Mr Tom Kerridge. He is decorated no less than seven of his own restaurants. He is a multi-award-winning
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