This is The Guardian.

I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.

A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.

Because even as a restaurant critic,

I believe the food that matters most

is often that snack you cobbled together

when you're curled upon the sofa.

Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid

on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.

Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.

Hello friends.

Now, you find me outside in my garden.

It is blazing sunshine out here.

And I am deadheading my tiny little mini rose bush.

I feel like I've neglected it. It needs some serious T Elsie. I've got my tiny little, very

chic Japanese secateurs here. They were a gift to me. Someone knows how to get to my heart.

Now, I am contemplating my next guest. It's multiple BAFTA nominated actor, comedian and writer.

It's Samson K.O. I cannot wait. I think he's going to be an absolute hoot. God, it's lovely doing this.

It's just the thought that I can nip off this head here and re-divert the plant's energy into

creating more colour, more flowers. And if I'm lucky, I might get another flush of blooms before autumn comes.

You've got to keep positive. It's another plane going over. I'm on a flight path, people.

Now talking of blooming, Samsung chaos stumbled into acting through sheer serendipity and burst onto

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