S4 E9: Amma Asante, film-maker

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Food, Arts

4.5 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 13 December 2022

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Grace’s guest this week is the Bafta award winning director Amma Asante. From her critically acclaimed films such as Belle, and A United Kingdom, to her work on TV shows such as The Handmaid’s Tale and Mrs America, Amma is a giant of the film-making world. She pops round to Grace’s to discuss her teenage days on the set of Grange Hill, how she fell in love at the Europol canteen, and the importance of Mr Kipling. And, of course, the comfort foods that have seen her through it all

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0:00.0	Babadubabadubabadubabab!
0:01.6	Hi everyone, Krissum Rosie here from Shagmau, Denoyd.
0:04.4	Brought you by Cadbury brunch, Cadbury brunch,
0:06.8	Old bar and Cadbury brunch, Nutt.
0:08.5	Ooh!
0:09.4	How exciting are you?
0:10.4	Well, I mean, you know I love Cadbury chocolate,
0:12.2	but I also very, very much love these.
0:14.6	Rosie, if I handed you a handful of nuts,
0:16.5	what would your immediate reaction be if I said
0:18.4	eat this handful of nuts?
0:19.5	I would eat them.
0:20.3	What about a handful of oats?
0:21.7	Yeah, thankful obviously, but bit dry.
0:23.9	Right, now both of those have been dipped in Cadbury chocolate.
0:26.6	A gobble, gobble, gobble!
0:27.9	Because these bars are plenty of the lovely things that you should be eating, but actually
0:32.9	tasty.
0:33.9	Because cereal and nut bars can sometimes be, dare I say it a little bit bland, but once
0:37.2	they've got a big solidar or cadbury chocolate going on, hello, hello, flesh in my belly.
0:42.9	They've got little chunks of it in as well.
0:44.9	So give them a try.
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