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, Jamie Laing, Natalie Cassidy, Kathy Burke, Jon Ronson, Shirley Ballas, Nadiya Hussain, James Norton, Graham Norton, Jamie Demetriou, Michael Ball, Alfie Boe, Amma Asante, Jay Blades, Michelle DeSwarte, Gaz Coombes, Georgia Pritchett, Fern Brady, Jayde Adams, Adam Kay, Jaime Winstone, 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, 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, Bridget Christie, Mary McCartney, Keith Brymer Jones, Adjoa Andoh, Tamsin Greig, Tom Kerridge, Katherine Ryan, Golda Rosheuvel, Suranne Jones and, David Baddiel, Amol Rajan 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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S8, Ep4: Leila Farzad, Actor
Actor Leila Farzad joins Grace for another serving of Comfort Eating -
S8, Ep3: Stanley Tucci, Actor
Award winning actor Stanley Tucci joins Grace to share his love of Italian food -
S8, Ep2: Maisie Adam, comedian
Comedian Maisie Adam joins Grace to share the food that fuels her funny bones -
S8, Ep1: Rag’n’Bone Man, singer
The Sussex-born platinum selling singer, Rag’n’Bone Man, joins Grace to share what he eats to sooth his gravelly vocals -
Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is back for a new season
Season eight of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent will kick off on Tuesday 24 September. Join Grace and her celebrity guests, including Richard E Grant, Rag’N’Bone Man and Vanessa Feltz, as they delve into what they love to eat when nobody is watching. -
Revisited – S3 E4: Big Zuu, rapper and TV personality
Double Bafta winner Big Zuu goes round to Grace’s house for a plate of his ultimate comfort food. -
Revisited – S3 E12: Natalie Cassidy, actor
Eastenders actor and all-round hun Natalie Cassidy pops over for a chat with Grace -
Revisited – S1 E2: Nish Kumar, comedian
In this episode of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent, comedian Nish Kumar tells Grace about some of the most important moments in his life – and the comfort food that saw him through them -
Revisited - S3 E2: Self Esteem, musician
Taking a dive into the Comfort Eating archive, Grace Dent and Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, have a riotous afternoon, which included ‘northern women eating carbs’, the joy of buying expensive jumpers, and some unexpected tears. -
S7, Ep8: bonus episode – a few of the tastiest bits from all seven series
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