Comfort Eating with Grace Dent
By The Guardian
From school dinners to sofa snacks – food has a huge part to play in shaping our story - and your favourite celebs have some delicious tales to tell. Join Grace Dent and celebrity guests as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food. Expect to hear from guests (actors from TV, movie, theatre and film; sportspeople, comedians, chefs…) such as: Katie Price, Natalie Cassidy, Kathy Burke, Jamie Laing, Jon Ronson, Shirley Ballas, Nadiya Hussain, James Norton, Graham Norton, Michael Ball, Alfie Boe, Amma Asante, Gaz Coombes, Georgia Pritchett, Jayde Adams, Adam Kay, Jaime Winstone, Jay Blades, Malorie Blackman, Dawn O’Porter, Neneh Cherry, Greg Rutherford, Goldie, Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson, Marian Keyes, Rufus Wainwright, Saoirse-Monica Jackson, Big Zuu, Eddie Marsan, Self Esteem, James May, Guy Garvey, Dave Myers, Jo Brand, Craig David, Fern Brady, Bernardine Evaristo, Tom Watson, Rosie Jones, Laura Whitmore, Desiree Burch, Russell Tovey, Stephen Fry, Deborah Meaden, Munya Chawawa, Aisling Bea, Krishnan Guru-Murthy, Candice Carty-Williams, Lawrence Chaney, Siobhán McSweeney, Scarlett Moffatt, Joanne McNally, Mae Martin, Rafe Spall, Nish Kumar, Jamie Demetriou, Bridget Christie, Mary McCartney, Keith Brymer Jones, Adjoa Andoh, Tamsin Greig, Tom Kerridge, Katherine Ryan, Golda Rosheuvel, Suranne Jones and, David Baddiel, Amol Rajan, Michelle DeSwarte and Russell T Davies. Comfort Eating is a one-to-one interview. In Grace’s kitchen, her guests discuss their lives in the context of food, cooking and cuisine. They talk about comfort food and snack recipes. The tone of the podcast is: warm, comforting, chatty, feel good, cheering, heart warming, comical and amusing. It’s inspiring but also escapism. It’s funny, comedy, laugh out loud / LOL, entertaining, humourous, inspirational, hilarious, illuminating, memorable, uplifting, soothing, reassuring, cheery and entertaining. Expect to hear humour, discussion, gossip and revelation. Grace's new Comfort Eating book, inspired by the podcast, is out now. It’s a wonderfully scrumptious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us.
Latest episode
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S7, Ep7: Bimini Bon-Boulash, drag queen
East London drag queen Bimini Bon-Boulash joins Grace to share what she eats when the 10-inch heels are off -
S7, Ep6: Jazzie B, DJ, music producer
Grace welcomes the legendary DJ, producer, and founder of Soul II Soul, Jazzie B to the podcast. Over a bowl of one of his childhood comfort foods, Jazzie takes Grace on a journey from playing his sound system at the age of 12 at a street party, to i… -
S7, Ep5: David Harewood, actor
Joining Grace this week is actor David Harewood, who sits down over his favourite comfort food to talk about everything from growing up in 1970s Birmingham as a young black boy, to the underrated wonders of corned beef -
S7, Ep 4: Allan Mustafa, actor and comedian
Allan Mustafa, AKA MC Grindah from the Bafta award winning People Just Do Nothing, joins Grace to share his favourite foods -
S7, Ep 3: Golda Rosheuvel, actor
Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte, Golda Rosheuvel, joins Grace to share what she eats when the wigs are off -
S7, Ep 2: Joanne McNally, comedian and podcaster
Ireland’s most acclaimed comics, Joanne McNally, joins Grace to share what fuels her funny -
S7, Ep 1: Katherine Ryan, comedian and writer
The Canadian-born queen of UK comedy, Katherine Ryan, joins Grace to share what fuels her funny -
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is back for more
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is back for a seventh course on 11 June. Join her and celebrity guests as they reveal the comfort foods that have seen them through their lives in series seven -
S6, Ep 10: Kiell Smith-Bynoe, actor and comedian
Joining Grace this week is the multi-talented actor, comedian and rapper, Kiell Smith-Bynoe. -
S6, Ep 9: Kiri Pritchard-McLean, comedian
Welsh standup, podcast host and panel show queen Kiri Pritchard-McLean brings her finest bowl of scran to Grace’s house