Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody's Looking

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Growing up in working class Carlisle in the 80s, Grace is passionate about Findus Crispy pancakes, potato waffles, Ambosia rice pudding, oven chips and Bisto gravy. She joins Grace to discuss the perils of snacking while breastfeeding, the dangers of fizzy paté, and the importance of dining out alone. Jon’s best known for going on adventures with unlikely people, culminating in hit books such as The Men Who Stare at Goats and The Psychopath Test. You can listen to the podcast here on the blog, and each week we will upload the next episode for you, so you can listen back whenever you please. She tells Grace about secret drinking as a school student, living in a haunted hotel in Donegal, and her dad’s ‘awful’ cooking.

She and Grace talk about big family dinners, motorcycle gangs, and eating habits during the menopause. The restaurant critic’s exploration of the delicious things we snack on is shot through with nostalgia for childhood, family and home . A crisp sandwich with lots of butter, pot noodle sandwich 🤤 I also just love a huge bowl of cereal sometimes and that’s my comfort.

The Bake Off star, whose triumph in the tent launched a TV, writing and culinary career of which dreams are made, is dropping by Grace’s home to share her loves, her hates and her strategies for managing a house of teenagers. Comfort Eating – alongside all the excellent snack chat – is a beautiful and evocative account of her childhood and caring for her dying mother. This is an easy read about Grace’s childhood, celebrities she has interviewed and her favourite comfort food recipes. She also shares some of the recipes from the celebrities who have hared their comfort foods on her podcast.

It is no surprise that so many people, when asked to produce an item of comfort food for the show, reach back to a recipe of their mother’s, something made by their gran, or the flavours associated with sitting with their dad in the pub.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. She tells Grace about her childhood in an Irish horsing community, being raised almost entirely by women, becoming successful later in life – and the comfort foods that have seen her through. Along the way, she catches up with some famous friends to chat about their own favourites – from Jo Brand’s fried bread sandwich and Russell T. And as a throwaway how much money did she get for appearing on Get Me out of Here and then bottling it at the first challenge?

The pair talk about his life – after she has to run to the kitchen to spit out the food he brought round. After a quick round of feedback on Grace’s favourite horrible 80s mug, Keith talks her through his post-punk band days, discovering a love for clay and a childhood crammed with Welsh cakes. Grace meets former athlete and current House of Lords peer Tanni Grey-Thompson, who introduces her to a snack less highbrow than you might expect. With classics such as Ted Hughes's The Iron Man and award-winners including Emma Carroll's Letters from the Lighthouse, Faber Children's Books brings you the best in picture books, young reads and classics. The book is a wonderfully scrumptious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us.Cosying up with Grace to launch a new season of Comfort Eating is none other than the queen of baking and all our hearts – Nadiya Hussain. Join her and celebrity guests, such as Graham Norton and Dawn O’Porter, as they reveal the comfort foods that have seen them through the good times,.