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I'm Grace Stent and this is Comfort Eating from The Guardian.

A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life. Because even as a restaurant

critic, I believe the food that matters most is often nut snack, you cobble together when you

curl upon a sofa. Each week I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen

them through their lives. Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed

on. Hello friends. In the spirit of today's guest, you find me preparing a little light lunch

which prioritises pleasure and I've settled on a snack that one of my favourite Comfort Eating

guests, Debra Maiden. She taught me this. It's a vegetarian sausage and I'm smearing it liberally

with marmite. Yes, I know it sounds strange but it is the ultimate umami hit.

See Debra went much heavier. She went much heavier. It was like a ganache icing when she had it on

because that woman is a machine. Today I have sing a songwriter, self-esteem aka Rebecca

Lucy Taylor coming round. Now it's not every day that you have a bona fide pop diva sitting in

your living room. I'm definitely going to have to put a power of heels on her. Her songs are like

a rallying cry that you can power dance to even when you're on your own. And one fan even tweeted

that listening to self-esteem made them feel like they could run through a wall. I've just renovated

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