S7, Ep8: bonus episode – a few of the tastiest bits from all seven series

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 30 July 2024

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

This week, Grace takes us on a trip down memory lane to hear some of the best bite-sized tidbits of food tales from seven glorious seasons of Comfort Eating, featuring the likes of Rafe Spall, Scarlett Moffatt and Russell T Davies. We hear the stories of Jay Blades’ school pudding obsession and Russell Tovey’s teenage love of brussels sprouts, and listen to clips that shine a light on how food and love are intertwined. We travel back to wild and youthful moments – a time when Siobhán McSweeney accidentally ate caterpillars, Adjoa Andoh was in a squat cooking for the masses on her dole money and Stephen Fry was on the run with stolen credit cards eating room service in the Ritz

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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.
0:13.0	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:20.0	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack
0:26.1	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.
0:37.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed door.
0:53.0	Janet from Macmillan Cancer Support has discovered a new weapon in the fight against cancer. Domino's.
0:55.0	By getting African and Caribbean communities together
0:58.0	over a game at the Pineapple Club in Southeast London,
1:01.0	she's helping to break cultural taboos about the big sea and ensuring
1:05.0	that people get the advice they need so everyone wins even though Janet never
1:09.8	does. Macmillan cancer support, wherever you are, we do whatever it takes to help people
1:16.3	living with cancer.
1:18.1	Comfort eating is supported by Piper's Crisps. Now we love to chat about the things that
1:28.1	matter on this podcast and as it happens Piper's know a thing or two about proper chat as well.
1:36.1	For 20 years, they've found a home in pubs across the UK, which, as we know, is potentially
1:42.3	the one place outside of this podcast studio where you're
1:45.9	guaranteed to find high-level chat.
1:48.9	Pipers!
1:49.9	Oh hang on, I've got a voice note from Piper's. Hello Grace Dent it's me
1:58.2	Richard Herring pipers have asked me to drop into your podcast to ask you a very important question with the aim of
2:04.8	bringing your listeners some truly flavorful chat I'm a big fan of your podcast
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