S1 E10: Aisling Bea, actor and comedian

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Food, Arts

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 August 2021

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Summary

Grace’s guest is the actor, comedian and creator of This Way Up, Aisling Bea. She talks about her childhood in an Irish horsing community, being raised almost entirely by women, becoming successful later in life – and the comfort foods that have seen her through. She also turns the tables on Grace, subjecting the host’s fridge to a Ready Steady Cook challenge

Transcript

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:06.0	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian.
0:12.0	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:17.0	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most
0:22.0	is often not snacked, it cobbled together when you curled upon the sofa.
0:27.0	Each week I asked my guests to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:34.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.

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