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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

S3 E11: Neneh Cherry, musician

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Food, Arts

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Grace’s guest this week is the singer Neneh Cherry. She tells Grace about the perils of growing up with vegetarian parents, moving to London aged 16, and turning away from pop stardom at the height of her fame. And she reveals the comfort foods that have seen her through it all

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:08.0

Comfort eating with Crescent is supported by a cardo.

0:12.0

With more choice than any other supermarket, there's an a cardo just for you.

0:18.0

I'm Crescent and this is Comfort eating from the Guardian.

0:24.0

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

0:29.0

Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most is often not snacked.

0:35.0

It cobbled together when you curled upon a sofa.

0:39.0

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

0:46.0

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

0:52.0

Hello friends, it's me again in my kitchen feeling a little bit frightened.

0:59.0

I'm eating the kind of lunch that you have when you can't quite bring yourself to sit down because you're a bit nervous.

1:07.0

I'm eating vegetarian chili but it's out of the fridge, out of tupperware.

1:13.0

I'm going to heat it up in the microwave and eat it standing up because I feel a bit jittery.

1:20.0

The woman coming over is someone I am a massive fan of.

1:25.0

Her albums soundtrack to my teenage years and little grace would not be able to believe that she's going to be sitting in my living room.

1:35.0

Menaceary is a musician who burst onto the scene in the late 80s with her hit song Buffalo Stance.

1:42.0

Making history with an iconic top of the pop's performance complete with a seven month baby bump.

1:49.0

And she's been making waves her whole life.

1:53.0

I know her upbringing was very untraditional.

1:57.0

Her family living pretty nomadically and getting into London's punk scene when she was still a teenager.

2:04.0

She's been breaking boundaries since she was little and has been a trailblazer ever since.

2:10.0

But what does menaceary eat when she's in a gym jumps on the sofa?

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