Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody's Looking

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She tells Grace about the perils of growing up with vegetarian parents, moving to London aged 16, and turning away from pop stardom at the height of her fame.

Sometimes we eat for pleasure, sometimes we eat for fuel, to feel better, out of boredom, because we’re sexually frustrated, sad, or any number of other reasons.In Comfort Eating, Grace Dent throws open her kitchen cupboards to reveal why we hold these secret snacks and naughty nibbles so dear to our hearts. Welcome to Comfort Eating with Grace Dent, the food podcast from The Guardian that we’re proud to sponsor. Exploring her go-to comfort foods through a series of joyous encounters, Grace reflects on the memories they uncover and pays tribute to her parents, the people who taught her what comfort eating truly means. He talks about some of the most important moments in his life – and the comfort food that has seen him through them.

So grab a plate and pull up a chair: unfussy, honest and filled to the brim with heartwarming personal stories and comfort food tales, Comfort Eating is the perfect treat for food lovers everywhere. The pair talk about his life – after she has to run to the kitchen to spit out the food he brought round. Best known as the bumbling titular estate agent of Stath Lets Flats and long-toothed lover of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s Fleabag, Jamie’s arrived fresh off the Barbie.Really enjoyed this - just the kind of entertaining, lightheated yet validating read I needed after a stressful few months. Grace’s guest on Comfort Eating this week is one of the most famous faces on Channel 4 News for more than 20 years, Krishnan Guru-Murthy. She transported me back to my Teesside childhood with her culinary tales of comfort eating excellence that sparked so many memories. However despite this it is a nice read and I did like it but I imagine it is better if you are a listener of the podcast as it is referenced frequently throughout the book and each chapter ends with a recipe for one of the comfort food offerings from various episodes.

Shirley’s become TV royalty as head judge on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing, but she’d already been. 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. She tells Grace about eating Chinese takeaway in the bath, her ‘fancy’ Indian meals with her dad and her love of Irish roast potatoes. They discuss attuning American tastebuds to British comfort foods, the joy of post-church fried chicken, and what to eat while wearing a dominatrix corset. She is a regular judge on the BBC's MasterChef UK and makes frequent appearances in Channel 4's television series Very British Problems.And like all things in life, it should be about YOUR comfort, not what everyone else thinks is theirs. And just like a young child who hasn’t learned a sense of self-restraint we’re reaching for the Ferrero Rocher with restaurant critic Grace Dent. The legendary drum’n’bass DJ Goldie has flown into London for summer performance dates, but first he stops by Grace’s living room.

Fancy menus are all well and good, but when the going is tough, nothing beats spaghetti hoops on hot buttered toast. Season three is ending with a bang, as Eastenders actor and all-round hun Natalie Cassidy pops over for a chat. Jayde and Grace discuss Jayde’s Bristolian beginnings, what it takes to become a fishmonger, and what makes the perfect dinner party.

As Dent puts it herself: “There’s nothing about life in late 20th-century north-west England that isn’t faintly hilarious in print, and I would not swap a single, solitary second. Grace Dent may be a high end food critic, but she’s not forgotten her humble beginnings, especially when it comes to food. Potato waffles with spaghetti hoops, fried bread sandwiches, beans on toast with crushed Wotsits; starchy, dripping, saturated morsels of pure, vitamin-free delight. Join Guardian food critic and her celebrity guests, as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food. So grab a plate and pull up a chair: unfussy, honest and filled to the brim with heartwarming stories and comfort food tales, Comfort Eating is the perfect treat for food lovers everywhere.