S3 E1: James May, broadcaster

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Food, Arts

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 17 May 2022

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Grace Dent is back for third helpings of Comfort Eating, and her first guest of the season is James May, co-presenter of The Grand Tour. The pair chow down over the ex-Top Gear star’s favourite snack, as he tells Grace about his childhood in Rotherham, inability to share food and how a ‘catastrophic lack of ambition’ led him to be one of the UK’s most popular broadcasters

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:07.3	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian.
0:13.4	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:18.8	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most
0:23.7	is often not snacked, it cobbled together when you curled upon the sofa.
0:28.6	Each week I asked my guests to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their
0:34.9	lives. Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.

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