I honestly cannot understand how someone who has such terrible taste gets to be a leading food critic. Dent talks about all the "naughty" foods in detail and reveals her own comfort food that she turns to and the memories it brings back for her. She transported me back to my childhood and my teen years and all the different foods I used to eat then. Comfort Eating finds Grace Dent inviting readers to her kitchen table to discover what makes the things we really eat so delicious. 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.

And now I'm off to think about what food I'd bring onto her podcast as my comfort food (let's be realistic, it'd be a buffet of beige). She tells Grace about secret drinking as a school student, living in a haunted hotel in Donegal, and her dad’s ‘awful’ cooking. From Nobel Laureates Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter to theatre greats Tom Stoppard and Alan Bennett to rising stars Polly Stenham and Florian Zeller, Faber Drama presents the very best theatre has to offer. The book is written brilliantly and the introduction was quite emotional about the death of Grace’s mum, but there was many memories that food can bring back to you. 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.Next over to Grace’s house is the former long jumper Greg Rutherford, who’s won gold medals at Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth level. And like all things in life, it should be about YOUR comfort, not what everyone else thinks is theirs. 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. The book is a wonderfully scrumptious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us.

I’ve never tabbed a book before and I was tabbing away at all the things I just found relatable or things I absolutely love!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. Rosie tells Grace about sausage rolls, and what it’s like to be disabled – and constantly hungover – at university. 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. If you are a sweet comfort eater, susceptible to the siren song of malted milk biscuits, Angel Delight, rice pudding or golden syrup, you may find Comfort Eating unfairly weighted towards the savoury. And, of course, she reveals what she scoffs from the fridge after long days on set Follow Grace Dent as she enters the Australian jungle for the latest series of I’m A Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here!

Jayde and Grace discuss Jayde’s Bristolian beginnings, what it takes to become a fishmonger, and what makes the perfect dinner party. Most importantly, she looks at what we shove, flat-palmed, into our faces when nobody’s looking and what this tells us about the human condition. Jo Brand is next round for Comfort Eating, and she brings a snack with her that Grace ‘devours like a wild animal’. 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.She’s an absolute star and I can think of no one better suited to celebrate the food we eat when no one’s around to watch or judge us – this truly is comfort food in book form! 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. Live in Ireland and can’t get fish paste 😂 remember fish paste sandwiches made by my Grandma ❤️in Scotland. Potato waffles with spaghetti hoops, fried bread sandwiches, beans on toast with crushed Wotsits; starchy, dripping, saturated morsels of pure, vitamin-free delight.

Comfort Eating – alongside all the excellent snack chat – is a beautiful and evocative account of her childhood and caring for her dying mother. One of those things where someone is writing about things that are very specific to them, but also universal in that everyone has their own version of what she's writing about, foods and memories that are intertwined and comfort you, or take you immediately back to a certain time. As season three comes to an end, Grace brings you a special bonus episode, recorded live at the Podcast Festival in London, with the cheekiest chap from Chelsea, Jamie Laing. He joins Grace to chat about his days overseeing Harvester’s coveted salad bar, late-night cheese boards and, as he prepares to release his fourth solo album, the meals that stand out from his days touring the world.

She regularly appears on MasterChef UK and she presents Best of Britain by the Sea with Ainsley Harriott.