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Grace Dent

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“We're just taking your metabolism. Sorry to create variations. No, you're just going to say I just was speaking to someone just before I met you and they said.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“You know, and then before you know, everybody would have a pickled egg and scraps. You don't have scraps, do you? That's when they sell you just the batter. It's a funny place, the north.”
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“But then you do that, and then we would do that, I would be dieting with my mother to kind of keep her company. And because I obviously I wanted to be that, but I wanted to be Linda Lusardi. I wanted to be Sam Fox. I wanted, she wanted to be Crystal Carrington of Dynasty. What Crystal Carrington of Dynasty? And then we would, we'd starve all week, and then on Friday, I mean, I say this in the book, my dad would go, Chippy T.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I always remember around when you had to get down to that, trying to get to that weight, it was always these pull out, cut out and keep brochures that came in the sun and there was those piles of slimming magazines in my house and it would be like nine hundred calories until summer and it would always give you suggestions of food and it would go. Instead of having chips, why don't you have two small potatoes and an artist joke when you pluck tick? That's not the sort of”
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“Did you have the butte? Did you have Eric Morley and the beauty contests and women coming on and thirty six, twenty four, thirty six? I mean.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All the way through my childhood, we were. We were fed this idea by the huge companies that butter wasn't good for you, whereas something like not just Florida, you know, Krona, all this, I don't believe in. One type in my house because my family were, or my mother and me were always on a diet, and whenever you got used to one really bad marjorie, my mother would take it to an even weaker one. You know, like she would go like, oh, this is the Weight Watchers one. Oh, it's the light one. And that's just slippery sadness. And you're kind of like... Put it on a Ryvita going. I write about that in the book a lot about. The whole idea of growing up in the shadow of beauty contests and my earliest memories are us all watching the old beauty. Did you go out in Britain?”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, I mean, I think that I start off the Buddha chapter and I kind of talk, you know, this fantasy world of how Buddha is and it's so nourishing and its inners and its hard wired. And then my mother god rested her soul who just lives on my shoulder sometimes going, well, that's not right, even though she's no longer here. And I could hear my mother going all the time saying, well, it was always off. You know, when she was a kid, she grew up on the side of a hill in Cumbria with kind of farming people. They didn't have fridges. So all the butter was always off. The milk was always off. You know, you go to Great Aunt Beat's house and she would give you a cup of tea with, you know, the milk just floating in lumps at the top and then the butter that was kind of rancid. And, you know, I always think that for my mother, her generation, just born on the Cusper Second World War, and then by the time they had spending power, it was like Flora. This stuff lasts forever. Yeah, it does for a reason, of course, that's why it lasts forever. And I think, you know.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Never do that to yourself, you would never come in on a night because we're so hardwired guilt and with especially Gen X. I talk about this. We've been hardwired to feel trained to feel that butter is wrong, it wraps itself around your heart and you shouldn't have it and what you should have is delicious flora, you know? But then we go to a restaurant, and especially one of those fancy restaurants where they suddenly bring you just before everything else comes, they bring you 150 grams of marmite whipped yeast butter on a rock or was on a rock. And it's on a rock. And then they just bring you a load of homemade treacle bread, and then they just go, you just have that. You don't have to eat all of it. So, I think this is why restaurants are so amazing. There's this part of the story.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Butter is the, I mean, I think that when we all say during lockdown, we all missed restaurants, we missed restaurant food, but I lived my entire life in restaurants and what makes restaurants good is butter. And people don't realize that. Why they say, gosh, this pastor is so much more delicious than what I make at home. It's got 200 grams of butter in it.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it's that kind of, I think that this is the perfect time of year. This is the greatest time in the eating calendar. Absolutely. From now until Christmas.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think that this is one of the most wonderful times of the year for women because this is when you can put on 60 Danny tights again. And I think this should be a national holiday. Absolutely. I think that as women, we should all send ourselves cards, send each of the cards. Where I would say to you, happy 60 Denny Tight Day, and I would send you a video of me doing that kind of weird kick that you have to do to get into them. But isn't there anything more wonderful than suddenly being able to eat more pasta, more potatoes, more bread, and just be able to kind of pull the waistband over your... One's dimpled midriff. Not that I have that.”
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“Take it away. Thank you so much for all coming out. I honestly I don't know if my friends Hughes here, Hugh. Oh, hello. This is one of my best friends, Hugh, and I told you again that nobody was going to come. There you go. And I was going to walk on and off to the sound of my own feet.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But they're the proper things that give comfort. They are the cornerstones of the things that are going to change your day. They're the things that nobody is coming in at the end of a hard day after a fight with their boss and thinking, mmm, superfood salad.”
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“Always seep in. You know, all of my books, I always say I like kind of coughing up a big fur ball, you know, sit there and kind of go, right, we won't talk about your mother's death this time. And then before you know it, it's there. And I think that with comfort eating, we talk about pasta, tinned pasta and the chocolate that when you see it by the supermarket counter, it just gives you that little kind of frisson of a lion bar, the wrapper of a lion bar. And all these things drag you back. It's that whiplash that you see when you walk in down a supermarket aisle and suddenly you see serene. You know what I mean? Sorren, sorine. How do you say that, Posh? Surrey serene. And you think it's all those things are going to be important. So yeah, there is grief all the way through it. There's laughs as well.”
2024-12-20 · Intelligence Squared · The 12 Books of Christmas | Comfort Eating with Grace Dent · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT