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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

S4 E3: Jay Blades, TV presenter

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2022

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Furniture restorer and television presenter Jay Blades pops round Grace’s for a helping of his ultimate comfort food. The two of them talk about the highs and the lows of Jay’s Hackney childhood, his lasting passion for school dinners, the mental health breakdown he experienced in 2015 and how he’s found joy on the set of his smash-hit show The Repair Shop. And, of course, the comfort foods that have seen him through it all

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:08.0

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is supported by a cardo.

0:12.0

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

0:17.0

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

0:23.0

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

You cobbled together when you curled upon a sofa.

0:38.0

Each week, I asked my guest 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.

0:54.0

I am just arriving at my kitchen because I have spent the morning walking around my house looking for furniture that needs fixing.

1:04.0

And that is because I have the one and only J Blades furniture restaurant coming round in a mouth.

1:13.0

He is presenter of the repair shop.

1:16.0

A program that in five years that it's been running has shot from daytime telly side show to a miserable prime time cocktail of tradesmen, trinkets and teas.

1:29.0

I've got a second though. I'm going to get on. I'm going to have a little bit of a snack.

1:32.0

I have got a beautiful piece of farmhouse curcums Lancashire on the go.

1:38.0

I'm just kind of easing away at it with a knife.

1:42.0

Just little bits here and there.

1:45.0

Doesn't make any impact with calories that way.

1:47.0

I've got a tin of olives on the go. Black olives in their brine.

1:51.0

Eating them with a spoon.

1:54.0

It's not a track trip.

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