S10, Ep5: Nicola Sturgeon, former politician

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 August 2025

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

This week, Grace is buzzing to meet former first minister of Scotland Nicola Sturgeon. Over the past few years, Nicola has weathered an independence referendum, Brexit, a pandemic, countless press briefings and parliamentary spats, an arrest and a divorce. So what food does she turn to when she needs some comfort?

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0:00.0	This is The Guardian.
0:07.6	I'm Grace Dent and this is comfort eating from The Guardian.
0:13.6	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.5	Because even as a restaurant critic,
0:21.8	I believe the food that matters most
0:24.1	is often that snack you cobbled together
0:26.8	when you're curled upon the sofa.
0:29.3	Each week, I ask my guest to lift the lid
0:32.6	on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person
0:38.8	from what they eat behind closed doors.
0:44.3	Hello, friends. Now my guest today is the former First Minister of Scotland.
0:52.2	I am absolutely buzzing. This is a big moment in comfort eating history.
1:00.3	I admit I'm a little bit nervous. Nervous. And also a touch envious. Because genuinely people,
1:09.7	why have I never been in charge of a small country?
1:13.1	Well, you're probably coming up with lots of answers there quietly in your heads.
1:17.3	I actually think I would be really, really good at it.
1:21.2	Just a small, maybe a formerly Soviet country.
1:24.8	A landlocked one, I think.
1:27.4	The People's Republic of Greasonia. It's got a beautiful
1:31.9	ring. I would burn fast and bright during what would be known as my glorious reign.
1:39.6	The national anthem would probably be Enjoy the Silence by Depeche Mode.
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