Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody's Looking

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Dent makes you laugh but also shares poignant moments from caring for her parents to traumatic experiences on Pointless and starting school.

As she explores her go-to comfort foods through a series of joyous encounters, she catches up with famous friends to discover their secret snacks - from Jo Brand's fried bread sandwich and Russel T Davies butter pepper rice to Scarlett Moffat's crushed Wotsits-topped beans on toast and many, many more . Grace’s guest on the season finale of Comfort Eating is the Dragons’ Den star and business owner Deborah Meaden. They talk about his childhood, memories of prison, cooking for his husband – and the comfort foods that have seen him through. Each chapter features a recipe, which is great if you fancy trying some of the weird and wonderful creations by Grace's podcast guests. Lots of toast using the white toastie loaf with allll the butter right to the corners of the toast, fish finger sandwich 👌🏻 yes please!Season three is ending with a bang, as Eastenders actor and all-round hun Natalie Cassidy pops over for a chat. It is all the things the title promises – delectable, delightful, delicious – and, to my taste, it’s at its best in those devastating slithers of grief and love which end each chapter. She regularly appears on MasterChef UK and she presents Best of Britain by the Sea with Ainsley Harriott. She tells Grace about her rebellious years after being kicked out by her parents, the fun of the 1980s comedy scene, and the comfort foods that have seen her through it all.

her book is funny, frank and also poignant (she talks openly about the death of her parents)A really enjoyable read.She joins Grace to discuss the perils of snacking while breastfeeding, the dangers of fizzy paté, and the importance of dining out alone. 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.

So grab a plate and pull up a 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. Grace Dent may be a high end food critic, but she’s not forgotten her humble beginnings, especially when it comes to food. He tells Grace about growing up as one of seven, coping with stage fright through booze, learning to be comfortable in restaurants in his 40s,. All of which makes for a particular kind of slightly mournful, slightly camp, slightly wistful philosophy, typified by statements such as: “Life is impermanent, and everything changes. I found it a bit too light and far too Britain centric but still enjoyed the listening/ reading experience.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. 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.

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. The pair talk about his life – after she has to run to the kitchen to spit out the food he brought round. It's reassuring that the food critic for a national newspaper can still enjoy white sliced bread and Dairylea triangles. The legendary drum’n’bass DJ Goldie has flown into London for summer performance dates, but first he stops by Grace’s living room. Davies' 'butterpepperrice' to Scarlett Moffat's crushed-Wotsits-topped beans on toast and many, many more .When she's not writing comedy Grace is to be found 'faffing about on the Internet' or 'faffing about in the garden or kitchen' or 'just 'faffing about generally.