From the archive (season 5): Nadiya Hussain

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

Grace is serving up some of her old favourites to curl up to as autumn turns to winter. Cosying up with Grace is none other than the queen of baking and all our hearts – Nadiya Hussain. 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. Over a plate of something so comforting you could curl up in it, Grace and Nadiya get down to brass tacks. Family, husbands, school and crisps – all the main bases – and there’s no shame allowed. Just get those elbows out and dig in. Buy Grace’s new Comfort Eating book, inspired by the podcast, here. The book is a wonderfully scrumptious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:08.4	Hello friends and buckle up because we have a little treat for you at the end of what has been
0:14.7	an absolutely banging season of guests, an autumn mini-series of five of my old favorites. So as autumn turns to winter,
0:26.4	snuggle up, settle in and wallow in this little selection of the most cockle-warming interviews.
0:34.4	Here's my conversation with the Queen of All Things Food and Baking, Nadia Hussain.
0:40.4	We joined me back in 2023 to tell me all about her life through food.
0:47.8	Hello friends, you find me yet again in my kitchen, gearing up for a new episode.
0:57.0	Having a little snack beforehand. Now, when no one's looking, don't tell anyone,
1:00.0	I eat gherkin straight out of the jar.
1:03.0	They can't do you for it.
1:05.0	Hang on.
1:06.0	Mmm.
1:09.0	Mmm. Mmm.
1:18.6	And Mrs. Ellswood's sweet and sour gherkins. Sometimes I wrap them in that plastic square cheese.
1:25.6	Quite sexy. Now today, I, not going to put too fine a point on this.
1:32.4	I am welcoming cooking royalty into my house. Nadia Hussain MBE is coming around for a snack
1:41.9	and a chat. I can hardly believe I'm saying that.
1:45.2	She's a TV chef.
1:46.7	She's a presenter.
1:47.8	She's a writer.
1:49.2	She's a regular on The One Show.
1:51.0	And she has written a bunch of the most gorgeous recipe books,
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