From the archive (season 4): Jayde Adams, comedian

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

As Grace Dent takes a short summer break, the team is delving into the archives to bring you some of their favourite episodes. This week, we rewind to November 2022, when Grace welcomed one of that year’s stars of Strictly Come Dancing, Jayde Adams. Jayde and Grace discuss Jayde’s Bristolian beginnings, what it takes to become a fishmonger, and what makes the perfect dinner party. And as always, the comfort foods that have seen Jayde through it all

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.1	Hello you.
0:08.6	This is part two of my mini-series of Sun Lawnger-friendly episodes.
0:15.6	I have dug right to the back of the comfort eating ladder
0:19.2	to see what's hiding there and I have found something amazing.
0:23.3	This episode is the equivalent of discovering a bar of chocolate took away behind the lentils that you'd forgotten was ever there.
0:31.7	Still beautiful, still delicious, still as enriching as it was on day one.
0:38.3	In this episode, I talked to one of my favourite women
0:41.8	about naked ambition, school food and the power of leopard skin.
0:48.3	Listen to this.
0:50.5	I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.
0:56.4	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
1:02.4	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often that snack you cobble together when you're curled upon the sofa.
1:12.1	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
1:18.9	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.
1:26.7	Please be aware that today's episode contains some swearing.
1:31.9	Hello friends, welcome to comfort eating.
1:34.4	You find me yet again in my kitchen.
1:37.5	I'm fighting off the feeling that these grey clouds hanging low in the sky are giving me via a little snack.
1:48.2	Today, I'm having something very, very naughty.
1:52.5	I'm having...
1:53.6	Well, I've got raw kimchi, which is actually quite sophisticated.
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