S9, Ep3: Pete Tong, DJ

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 4 March 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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Summary

This week on Comfort Eating, Grace is joined by superstar DJ, King of Ibiza, and namesake of his own rhyming slang: it’s Pete Tong MBE. Pete is one of the most influential figures in dance music; without him, house music and club culture would not be what they are today. He is about to go back on the road in the UK with his 10th year of Ibiza Classics – described as an event for the relapse raver. Born in Kent, Pete was raised on classic British 60s fare, and he remembers with fondness tins of baked beans and sausages, and recalls with horror the foods he endured at boarding school. Grace and he discuss wining and dining Run-DMC when he was trying to get them to sign to his label, and what Noel Gallagher’s pet fish may or may not have eaten during the wild noughties running with the Primrose Hill set

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.6	I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.
0:13.6	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.5	Because even as a restaurant critic,
0:21.8	I believe the food that matters most
0:24.1	is often that snack you cobble together
0:26.8	when you're curled upon the sofa.
0:29.3	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid
0:32.6	on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person
0:38.8	from what they eat behind closed doors.
0:45.2	Friends, hello, you find me adding organic Baba Ginoosh and 60 lemon-cented bin liners to my online shopping. People talk about
0:57.0	ramp and consumerism, how it's buy, bye, buy, and how we're all dopamine-seeking missiles at heart.
1:03.8	But I get exactly the same dopamine here from just clicking, add to basket. My basket regularly sits heaving full for honestly weeks.
1:14.6	It's not about buying for me.
1:16.6	It's simply about putting luxurious, but frankly, unneeded items in my shopping cart.
1:25.8	Talking to dopamine.
1:33.9	Today's guest has surely released more dopamine in more brains over his 50 years of being a superstar DJ than almost anyone else.
1:37.5	He is the king of Abitha, the record spinning legend, the star of the catchphrase,
1:43.5	it's all gone. Yes, yes, sir,
1:47.6	it is Mr Pete Tom. I can't believe I'm saying that. In my house, Pete Tong is beyond doubt
1:56.5	one of the most influential figures in dance music. Without him, I reckon, house music would not
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