S3 E10: Greg Rutherford, Olympian

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Food, Arts

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2022

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Next over to Grace’s house is the former long jumper Greg Rutherford, who’s won gold medals at Olympic, world, European and Commonwealth level. He tells Grace about growing up in a conservative religious household, being brought home by the police as a teen, and how he turned it round to become one of Britain’s most successful athletes of all time

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:07.7	Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is supported by a Cardo.
0:11.5	With more choice than any other supermarket,
0:14.1	there's an a Cardo just for you.
0:17.1	I should say before we start,
0:18.9	today's episode contains some swearing.
0:22.4	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian.
0:27.4	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:33.4	Because even as a restaurant critic,
0:36.4	I believe the food that matters most is often not snack,
0:40.4	it cobbled together when you curled upon a sofa.
0:43.4	Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods
0:48.4	have seen them through their lives.
0:50.4	Because you can tell a lot about a person
0:53.4	from what they eat behind closed doors.
0:57.4	Hello friends, welcome to another episode of Comfort Eating.
1:03.4	I'm in my kitchen just preparing to meet an Olympic gold medalist
1:09.4	who's coming around to my house.
1:11.4	I need to get myself into peak physical fitness,
1:15.4	so I am making myself a delicious snack.
1:18.4	I've got some plasticky squares of cheese.
1:24.4	It's Edam, since he asked, and I'm wrapping a large girkin in cheese.
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