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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

S4 E5: Adam Kay, writer

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.51.9K Ratings

🗓️ 15 November 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Knocking on Grace’s door this week is the doctor-turned-writer Adam Kay, whose memoir This is Going to Hurt was loved by critics and readers alike, making it the UK’s second-most-sold book in 2018. Adam and Grace discuss the fast pace and poor food of life on a gynaecology ward, his favourite motorway service station snack, and his struggle with disordered eating. And of course, the comfort foods he turns to today

Transcript

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0:00.0

This is the Guardian.

0:06.9

Comfort Eating with Crescent is supported by a Cardo.

0:10.6

With more choice than any other supermarket,

0:13.2

there's an a Cardo just for you.

0:16.2

Quick warning, before we begin,

0:18.2

this episode includes a conversation about eating disorders.

0:22.8

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

0:26.9

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

0:34.3

Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most

0:39.2

is often that snack you cobble together when you're curled upon a sofa.

0:44.0

Each week, I asked my guest to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their

0:50.4

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

0:57.2

Welcome, friends. You find me in my kitchen, as ever.

1:05.0

I have found the most miraculous and exciting thing in my cupboard this morning.

1:09.7

I was cleaning out the cupboard where the plates were and I found an old rogue

1:16.4

cabbary's mini-roll. You know, the one in the purple packet, oh my god, I must have eaten

1:22.8

about 11 of them so quickly that this one went astray. But how old is it?

1:30.4

Who cares? They all go the same way.

1:33.8

In a short while, we have an actual doctor arriving in my house.

1:40.7

It's Adam Kaye, best selling author of this is going to hurt who doesn't have a copy in their house.

1:49.5

He spent six years delivering babies and working in fertility clinics but turned to writing

1:56.6

where his credits include Mrs. Brown's voice and that Mitchell and Webb look. But major success

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