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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

S2 E11: Dave Myers, hairy biker

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Grace’s first fellow Cumbrian guest on Comfort Eating comes in the form of TV cook and hairy biker Dave Myers. He tells Grace about – ironically – losing all his hair aged eight, his years as a makeup artist, working in the steelyards of Barrow-in-Furness, and the comfort foods that have seen him through it all

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:06.8

Just a warning, there is some strong language in this episode.

0:10.3

I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian.

0:16.4

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

0:21.8

Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most

0:26.8

is often not snacked, it cobbled together when you curled upon a sofa.

0:31.6

Each week, I asked my guests to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.

0:38.8

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

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