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Grace Dent

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“Weird and wonderful things, and I don't eat a lot of meat, but when I'm at work, if somebody brings me any kind of valve or tube, I'm a bit like, oh, go on, you know. Let's do it. Let's eat this, you know, whatever it is.”
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“Should we just walk off again to the sound of my feet? Did that answer your question, madam? Thank you. I don't know exactly what you're talking about. Yes, I think that sometimes these things are the worst things that, you know, I don't mind eating. Thank you”
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“That is the worst thing because I felt as if I had to eat it. And I just felt angry the next day. I felt I don't know why that moved me so much, but I do remember you do have sometimes real existential worry, an existential, like it hits you that you're because you can see how much, like when I go, you know, I went and took some stuff to a not me trying to be a sane, took some stuff to a food bank the other day because I got given so much food and I took it and I just got this such a lovely email to treat people going thank you for the kidney beans you know because it's going to be so really appreciated by people and then the next minute I'm going here have three hundred and fifty pounds for an edible condong with some sugar spoon syrup inside it I've really just killed the night haven't I”
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“It was replicated to be a used condom. Oh, up until now, this has been a very charming evening. I'm so sorry. I definitely do blame you. I'm so sorry. And if you go onto my Instagram and scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, scroll, not only will I get younger and younger and younger, but there's a one of me, and I do look very young in it, and I'm just holding up the condom.”
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“I can't believe I'm telling this in the church. It's going to be donated to an AIDS charity. That's absolutely amazing charity. It's one thing that I really support. And they said it's called Sex on the Beach. And it came and he had replicated a condom that had been left on a beach that was, so this is it. It was a condom that was left on a beach. And it was sugar sand and a sugar condom and it was ringed. One person is laughing, everyone else is just gone. Everyone's gone. So come back.”
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“six hundred pounds and it made these things that sometimes it makes me depressed it makes me depressed like sorry I don't want to sound like worthy but it does make me depressed when it's bad and he was called the demon chef for who do you remember who this is I can't remember his actual I shouldn't say his name it's going out on bloody intelligence where the restaurant's not there anymore anyway and the last course So it was the last course was it was an experimental Chinese Japanese food done everything done with a twist. So there's a lot of closhes with smoke and invisible things and tweezers and moving bits that are probably ants and all that. I could do that. You know, you don't. This doesn't phase me. And then the last thing they went, would you like to do a supplement at the end for £15 extra? And it's going to be donated.”
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“Excuse me. J on jazz piano. Go on. Don't do that. The worst? Right, okay, I'm going to tell you, and you're not going to like this. So if you've got a delicate constitution, I'm going to say it, and you can blame that lady there. I once went to a very, very expensive tasting menu in London, the bill for two people was about...”
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“That lady does, I love that, she said. I don't need the microphone. She said, I love that confidence. What's the worst thing you've ever had in your mouth?”
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“You know, it's like that's the whole thing, you can see it, so anyway, I'm going to shut up now. No, don't talk on. Any other questions? Given that was delivered on so phenomenally, there's loads of hands now that weren't there before. Right. So what else can we get this called Grace Dent spills the beans on to toast and butter? What was your question? Oh, hold on. Microphone's coming.”
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“You know you walk in and we don't, it's like we never very you very rarely see us in the same room together. I would never I don't want to be in the same restaurant review in that Giles is because that means there's been a bit of a kind of an error in we don't want to run a column at the same time. So when we do sit down on that on that bench the gossip is just oh my god and as I will say this I say this to Jay's face Jay is a messy bitch who loves the drama You have delivered on that question. How do you say? Jay is like kind of ye'll never guess and I'm like no”
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“He knows that I think that. But yeah, I would love to tell you he doesn't, because this is going to go out as a podcast. Oh, goddess, he'll be at home with his tinfoil hat on listening right now, like kind of like checking how many people have listened to this tonight. I think that, you know, they're all quite good fun. That's the thing. They're all massive personalities. So as much as I'd love to tell you that Giles Coran isn't fun to eat with, he's really, really good fun to eat with. And one of the best things about MasterChef is when I do the back room, when I go in and I sit.”
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“Right. The food critic bunch can be a difficult and awkward and ego driven and irrascible old bunch of people. That's an old fashioned word, isn't it? But the aggravating thing about all of them. Is they're all really good company, and I would love to tell you that, you know, when you see William sitwell on Master Chef, I think it's very easy to think that you'd like to slap him. And maybe Jay as well. And I mean, I've thought about it often, but my favorite person to eat with all of them is probably Tom Parker Bowles because he's never boring. But Jay, Jay's great. Jay's good fun as long as he doesn't play jazz piano, which as long as you don't, I mean, but that is ever-present. That is an ever-present threat. Hugh, you know that at the IV Club, they have a piano at all times, don't they? And I've seen Jay just drift halfway through dinner and start going like, Old Man River, and you're like, oh, but I say this in a spirit of love and even...”
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“And then with microwaved pots of spaghetti hoops eaten on toast one Saturday morning for breakfast I load into the car with my two brothers. All of us older and grayer, and we head to Sillith and we park the car where the static caravan once was, and we walk over sand dunes and we walk over wet sand and we stare out far into the Irish sea and it's a blustery February day and we throw mom and dad's ashes into the wind. We just watch them and they just disappear in seconds. And life, it's impermanent and everything changes. And I love tinned pasta because I like to cling to the small things that are constant.”
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“In the late eighties my parents splash out and they buy their very own static caravan. They spend every weekend on a beach, they walk their dogs, they listen to Foster and Allen on CD, they eat microwaved spaghetti hoops on War Burtons with utterly butterly. And then I'm there back from Uni Syllis depress him, trapped in time and heroically quaint, and in the noughties they have to get rid of the caravan, and Dad can't go anymore. He's got dementia. It's too much. And with my mama and her health it's a bit too cold, but still sometimes we drive out there and we have chips and a walk, and we go very slowly along that seafront, holding Dad's hands so he can't get lost, suggesting to my mother that she uses her wheelchair, she won't be seen dead in one she says someone might see her in it and think she can't walk any more.”
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“The little van with raspberry ripple. And then I'm taken as a sullen teenager, a teenage goth in the eighties. I'm only there because I can't be trusted to have a house party. If left alone and I walk along the beach twenty meters behind my mum and dad, fuming that I am not in Berlin with the sisters of mercy.”
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“Pinned spaghetti is day nine in a static caravan and the rain has poured to such an extent that the parking area is flooded, but we are adventurers, tinned ravioli as my mum making tea, and she's reading us James and the giant peach. She's reading us Pamer's poems to make us laugh. Oh, I wish I'd looked after my teeth she would say. It's Kid Jensen on the radio, and it's us dancing to physical by Olivia Newton-John, and it's watching Starsky and Hutch on a portable telly. Is dad arriving trying to make amends and her saying, get off me, you scouse gat. I sit on my dad's knee and he reads me today's handicap Syllus is a constant as the years pass I'm taken as a tween less impressed by the penny architect.”
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“noodle doodles that came in the shape of butterflies and or spaghetti hoops you can't beat spaghetti hoops in tomato sauce taste nothing like the original fruit that delicious blend of modified cornflower citric acid sugar and garlic salt Tin Pasta is on my grocery delivery every time it's available in every supermarket when I'm far from home. It's my saviour when I'm sad and tired and when hotel room service is stopped serving. That's when I buy my small tins of pepper pig spaghetti, and I can eat it with a teaspoon. Tin spaghetti has his particular special place in my life. It's basically adult baby food”
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“It was an ambitious April trip and the forecast said that it would be raining the entire time and terrific winds would be blasting across the Irish sea, liable to knock over our caravan. Ma'am, however, was determined. We would venture to the shop. We weren't bothered by the rain at all because the thing is about a static caravan, is that the more it rains outside, the snugger you are inside, and rain just made it even more exciting when man would fold down that caravan table and serve as lunch, and he would always be something out of a tin and it was almost always pasta on white toast. A lot of the time it would be ravioli, small plumps, plus small clump envelopes of salty mole coloured sludge.”
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“This time carrying tracing paper to do rubbings of stones and packed lunches with egg sandwiches that stunk the bus out. None of this compares to the excitement of Easter seventy nine when we spent fourteen full days in Sillet. Mam took me and my little brother for an extended sojourn in a static caravan and I thought it terribly brave of her to take us on her own, although I look back now and understand she was simply sick to the back teeth of my father. sick of his asthma, sick of his moaning, sick of the washing pile. I think she'd found one snotty hanky down the side of the settee too many.”
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“Sometimes we'd go to the tea rooms and mum would buy us a jam tart and a glass of banana nest quick and we'd eat fish and chips in the paper, sat on me mum's, sat on the bonnet of my mum's British Leyland princess overlooking the Irish Sea. In the summer, when the sun shone, we'd be down to the beach on the firth building sand castles on the dunes, close to Cellarfield until our shoulders peeled. Then, when the holidays finished, we'd return to school only to be taken back to Scylla on a school trip. Yes, back to the only place we'd ever been.”
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“Doing a show because I just think, look, it's just not my responsibility to bring the sex appeal. I mean, it's not saying I don't have any. I absolutely, it's a sort of relaxation of it because it's like, if I have any, that's an extra bonus to what I'm meant to be bringing, which is, you know, a certain amount of skill or talent or, you know, whatever behind you. And I sort of think in some ways the relaxation of not having to bring any means.”
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“Unit is there a point in a woman's progress through life where she stops being truthful like as I think I'm in my I'm in peak I mean I'm just past 50 I'm peak truth now anybody like roll up pull up a chair I will tell you the truth and then I'm just very little estrogen going around trying to have just but is there a point where you get where you just again just start to randomly lie because I think that my mother hit that point where I do know where you just start going that didn't happen I think what it is is when you're young this is what I'm feeling now when you're young you always feel it's your responsibility to bring sex appeal into the room because it kind of is that's what youth is youth is everyone's got to fancy you and does anyone fancy you and does everyone fancy you and nobody fancies you and I've hit a point recently where I just I just love being out or going out”
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“over two lanes of moving traffic often to go and get ten regal king size and chocolate for everybody. Now my mother again she's to deny this absolutely'cause my mother had this kind of she had this revisionist like idea of looking at history that would have like made Chairman Maubush like anything that happened like this she would basically go No, it didn't it didn't I never you never had a key to let yourself in you're like really really mom so like I do I find it I find it fascinating looking back and looking at what we got away with yeah yes it was it was a it was a very different time like that but also my parents also have revisionist history on what went on and I think it is just the way of the world that one's parents cannot fully admit everything that went on because it would just if we all admitted it it would just explode the fabric”
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“A very specific taste, though, isn't it? Like a flake tastes. Again, it tastes different to a dairy milk. It tastes different to the chocolate on a cream milk. I know these are all similar, but there's something about that that to me is putting my hand down the back of the sofa, hoping that the money had fallen out of my dad's pocket and going down to the, there was an off-license near my house when I was a little, it's two different times. Gen X, you stole money from the back of the sofa and then went to an officense that was sold, oh, you know, just it was a boozy off license and then bought chocolate and crisps and peanuts from a piece of cardboard that the more that you took the cart, the thing, the more that a woman's boobs became visible. Sorry, I should put this down. No, no, don't put it down. Don't put it down. And yeah, you would get sent off.”
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“Every time they ask me to set a brief to go in the kitchen, I always do. They always say just something that they can really get stuck into and I always go, how about potatoes every time? And I always think they're the nicest tasks because, you know, it's that it often comes from the heart. I'm so sorry, I'm so used to eating when people are looking at me because that's my job that I'm just, I'm so unattractively shoving this flake into my mouth. Can you go for it? The flake.”
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“Time I made it because I thought you're too old for this now. And does the flake go on the side? No, well, then you put greater chocolate on the top or if you're me, you just flake because it's just easier than grating chocolate, isn't it? Do you know like Master Chef? Deborah. Has poured a flake crumbles over her. Oh, God, I wish the people would cook things like this on Master Chef. I have grinned too much at scallops. I have done my lives to grinning at scallops. I would kill for someone to go and go grace. I've just got a load of flake. Jam and sherry.”
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“I'm so sorry if you've got that thing, what is called when you hate people eating in a microphone? No, no, no, this is yours they have. This idea of a nightmare. When would you cook this? Make it. Yeah, I was going to say cook. Is it an exaggeration of the situation? I would, well, as teenagers, we used to make it, because it was something you could make and not cook. And then in my 20s, when I was first having dinner parties, sometimes if I didn't, if I thought, oh, I don't have any time. But I can do it the night before. And it's really, really easy. But then as you get older, you think you can't serve that at a dinner party. In fact, the last time I served it at a dinner party, I didn't leave it in long enough. And someone who's in the audience tonight went, is this just biscuits? And it was one of my friends who's in the audience. That's not a stalker who's followed me here. I went, is this biscuits? And I went, what? Yes, it is. And explained how I made it. And I think that was the last.”
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“I probably should ask you Is it okay to give you such a boozy cake? No, no, no. I mean, I don't drink. So I haven't tried it yet. It's fine. This is actually, no, this is free getting drunk, I think. I think that's what they call it. Tell him tell me I'm so sorry. I've got a microphone. I'm so sorry if you've got...”
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“What you do is you take a chocolate biscuit, and I don't mean a chocolate, I mean a biscuit like what I had to do was get Oreos and take the middles out because it's very hard to get chocolate biscuits now. You then dip it in sherry, you dip the chocolate biscuit in sherry, then you put jam on it, then you put cream on it, and then you do another one like that and you put them together and you line them up in a log. It's kind of like a Yule log that you'd make if you went to cold juice school up north and that was what you would kind of make at school in home economics, but you would make it. You just put the biscuits with all this stuff on it in the fridge with cream over the top and then overnight the sherry and the jam seeps in and the cream seeps into the chocolate biscuits. Creating a cake. What? Quite boozy. It is a bit boozy. I did think, God, suddenly at the last minute, I did.”
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“So, this is something we used to make when we were teenagers because you don't have to cook it, okay? The point is it's embarrassing, okay? So just stay with that. Tell me what the ingredients are. It looks like a Yule log. That's what it is. So what you do is you take a chocolate biscuit, and I don't mean a chocolate biscuit with chocolate on top. I mean a chocolate biscuit. Oh, bloody hell. It's good. Grace then said it was good. Thank you. I will accept my Michelin star now.”
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“I used to cook a tiny bit before I met my husband and he's such a good cook and I don't enjoy cooking. So I haven't cooked since I met him. And that was, it was definitely... Open the box. Thank you. Thank you. Okay. Oh, pun. So it is this. Okay. To me, that looks like a reaction to have. And I understand why. Okay, but can I explain what it is now that I've shown it? Yes, yes I met my husband. It was definitely after the blitz. And it was a long time ago. I've cooked for a long time. It's in the cupboard next to the oven, thinking I would not know where the tinfoil was, which gives you an indication of how little I cook. He basically explained where the kitchen was. It's down the hall to the right. I see, it seems to have created a force field. It's like a healing.”
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“I'd take it back. I didn't bring anything. This is still going. Still going. Okay. All right. All right, fine. Because you normally take the tea totel off, but I've put it in a box. Okay, so you can open it. Don't open Fine, fine, it's fine. Open it, open it, it's fine. Yep, go on. What I want you to do is I want you to explain that on the side. I'd want you to show you to show them. But I'll take this tray out. I've put it on a silver tray on she's gone very territorial about that. No, not volt. Okay, whatever we can do to make this better, you have that box. Nothing will make it better. Okay, all right. Let's go under the table. The appointment. Okay, so what I've done, I'm just taking the sides down a bit. Okay, so what I've done is, and please bear in mind...”
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“Minutes of self explanation before they open it. They go to pieces. If I'd have asked you to come on and do a one-woman show about the whole, but when you ask somebody to just do the conversation, show me what's in the box. Show me the box one. No.”
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“Okay, so just to explain, in the book, Grace says, the best ones are when the guest brings something that's kind of embarrassing. Like some celebrity guests will go, oh, what I really love is a spaghetti Putinesca. Yes. And Grace goes, that's not really in the spirit. We try and veto that kind of stuff. In that spirit, to be honest. Oh, really? Yeah. Well, I can sort of see that with Stanley Chick. She's his whole brand, isn't it? Yeah. So I've lived up to that. So I would say don't judge me, but the point is judge me. Can I just say here, sorry to put in that one of my favorite things, absolutely my favorite things about the podcast is, and we have to usually, because we have editors, we have to always cut from the most confident people, you're one of the most confident people I know I've come across. We always have to cut 15.”
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“Would explain that on comfort eaten if you haven't listened to it that every week the celeb comes in and they bring their snack and I don't know what it is at all. We have to go to great lengths to not for me to not know because I'm very nosy and it happens in the podcast happens in my house that causes an enormous amount of stress as it is because I'm a northern working class woman so everything has to be absolutely clean before the celeb comes around which means that Richard E. Grant is arriving and I'm basically putting dirty dishes into the back of my car. Taking pants off radiators and hiding things. But the other thing is they bring their stack. So,”
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“Sponge pudding made with sewer with pink custard. You know, and like every time every 20 minutes people were just doling out gypsy creams and like, you know, and I just thought this is living, this is dying, right? But this is living. Exactly. No one was nobody was coming around at the end and saying, I tell you what, yeah, who wants... I would like some boot. Yeah, and who wants to do this three nothing sadder on those thousand calorie diet charts than two boiled potatoes. No fat. If you had a week to live, you would live in a way that might meet you. You only had four days. Darling, let's do the thing because we were going to do it at the beginning”
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“Turn And look at everyone else and see, does anyone come here tonight to feel superior? No, no, I've given it all up and I feel a lot better in myself. But most of us go through phases. Now, this brings me to what I've made. Sorry, Darwin. Well, I was just going to say that when my father had Alzheimer's and eventually went into care and when he went into care, he was therefore the last three years of his life. And we're talking about this about the when people are, you know, he was in care with lots of other people who were end of life. And every time I went in there, they'd have the menu for the week on the wall of what everybody was getting every day. It was printed out in big letters. So if people still had the ability to read, they could see. And it was like a primary school, you know. And that menu was bloody amazing because it was all the stuff that we, though, you know, it was spongy food.”
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“And I meet them at book festivals, and I agree agree, I think that these things I think that these things can be very bad for you, and I think that these things, some of the stuff that's in these things, I don't even think we know what they are, you know, and I know that when I take them all out of my diet and live on an able and coal box, which I do sometimes, and that is a very long week. Oh my God, art to joke. But I know I feel better. I feel lighter, I feel blah, but... I love a potato waffle. I love a potato waffle”
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“eight, and everybody else having money for a funny feat, and me going if I keep my money for two nights, I can have a cornetto, and when you get to the bottom, the bottom of the cone is thick chocolate. And how exciting is that and sitting on the couch with my dad under my dad's arm and him watching Monty Python and watching Kenny Evere and only when I laugh and all of these amazing and me watching anything, just watching anything I grew up in the north in the 70s. I mean, I grew up in Sepia, right? And there were three channels and just watching TV and, you know, going to the freezer cabinet and a chalk ice and these little things, how do you say to people like me? Never again. You know, never again. These things are bad for you. And so I do. I read all these books by these amazing doctors.”
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“for the people that write about hyper-processed food and ultra-processed food. I'm not by any means saying everyone's throw your scales out, let's live on Finders Krispy pancakes. Although I would say that if I was standing for Parliament just to see how far it would get. Another thing I would do is I'd put the architecture back into the Vianetta, which has gone frankly downhill. Thank you, Madam. Thank you. I have one vote there. The architecture would go back into the Vienna. I'm not saying that we should all just live on these things and I am thoroughly aware that we've all got a very complex relationship with these things. Like I know that I know Connet O's aren't good for me. I know they're not good for me. I know they're not part of a balanced diet, but a Cornetto for me is the ice cream van Come in when I was seven or eight.”
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“They just got evidence. But isn't it weird with, sorry, I'm going off on one about Carbury's chocolate, but Cabri's to me will always be, you know, two cabri's caramel or just cabrie's chocolate Easter eggs. One for me and one for my little brother bought on about the Thursday of Easter and then put on the cabinet and we're not allowed to touch them until Sunday. I just the deferred gratification of waiting, you know, or buying chocolate. That's one of the one thing that I always knew I could get around my dad with, you know, a bar of fruit and nuts. But those things, yeah, I just think those things are so important. And we were talking before we came on about, I said, I'm so determined, you know, this book isn't kind of a smacking your face.”
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“Through the army base that I was born on, and were going to the Nafi shop. No, you're not allowed big girl chocolate, which is like a Turkish delight. Little girl chocolate. Yea I love that, Isa. Will you completely believe that, don't you? If you ask for a Turkish delight when you're a little girl and your father says that the police will arrest you for being too, you're like, okay, I'll wait till I'm 18.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Fragments of yeast and squirrel's tears on a bed of blah blah blah blah blah, you know. I can talk about that and I can talk about it in the most eloquent and articulate way, but I love to talk, I know that people's eyes light up when I absolutely nail why Cabri's purple will always be love to me, you know, like, and I don't think I will agree, I don't think Cabres is the same, say it quietly. No, say it loudly. I don't think Cabri's chocolate is the same these days. I don't know, but I do know that when I see those little packets of chocolate buttons and they've got little bow peep on the back, you know, or little Jack Horn Horner sits in his corner. Right away I'm like and I'm holding my dad's hand and we're walking.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I know people were like, it wasn't that I was saying anything radical. I wasn't saying, you know, I worship Satan. I was saying what people do all the time. But it's this, again, eating, talking about food like no one's watching. And both these things can go together. I can turn and suddenly discuss a sixteen course taste in menu where, you know, it's”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Because that's fascinating, isn't it? Why three? Why cream eggs? Who bought the cream eggs? And that's when you get the most fascinating stories when people go, Oh, I just ate, you know, I just ate a chicken teaker out of the fridge. Oh, well, why do you get that? What will we always get from displaced? And it reminds me of my dad. So I always said that if I did a podcast about food, we would talk about the actual real things. And then as And I started to realize how much disgust and shock people had on their faces when I said, I really like oven chips with gravy, but that powdered gravy that you get, that you're making a cup, and I have them with minced sauce because it's like a kind of instant Sunday lunch.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That probably no one's heard of, I always think that, especially with celebrities, my years of interviewing celebrities, they can turn up with an agenda of the three things they're going to talk about, the bigger the celebrity, the bigger the celebrity, the bigger the entourage around them, usually the more that you've got literally two things that they're going to talk about. And you're usually kind of tied in knots. And then as the soundman is putting their microphone, Sandman always says to the person Can you just tell me what you have for it after breakfast? Just tell me what you have for breakfast and that is when the celebrity says three cream eggs and you're like after.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It's such a dad joke and I love it. Whenever you hear her, whenever you're hearing yours, Ladere, I write my column for a reason about the finest places and I do that because I'm very determined that normal people don't get ripped off. I don't do it for the restaurant PRs. I don't do it for the chefs. I certainly don't do it for the chefs. I do it because I think that I want to people to when they go out and they spend £200 on dinner, which is so easy these days. They're not going to get ripped off. But when a celebrity walks in, you interview celebrities. When a celebrity walks in, is there anything more boring than a celebrity talk in about fancy restaurant that their PR booked for them the night before? It's really, it doesn't make me excited or God, whatever you went to, a great restaurant, you got great service.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I find people talking about the Posh restaurants that they go to I shouldn't say this but really quite dull like I mean I write my column and I do that for a reason to bring the coming for us”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But they look amazing. And I was thinking, God, this is just the cabbage soup diet, again, where you're sitting in the house with diarrhea and”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They were talking about a famous person, and they went, they must be on a Zen pic. And I went, I don't know, I don't know, they've never mentioned it. They went, everybody's on a Zenpec. And I went, well, I'm not on a Zempik. And they said, Oh, everyone is it's fine. And I said, well, we don't know the, we don't, it's a very new drug. We don't know the side effects. And they went, no, the side effects, all the side effects are constipation, vomiting, diarrhea, and bad heads.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT