This is the Guardian.

I'm Grace Dent 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 not snacked or cobbled together when you're curled 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 doors.

Hello friends, I am in my kitchen. It's another episode of Comfort Eating

and I am channeling a rightfully snack in homage to today's guest.

It's the Humble Fiddle.

Agar.

It's design plastic.

It's actually a pot Italian fig roll.

It's called Satembolini.

I've chosen this because my guest is a writer.

This is Portioned. It's neat.

You can have one at the end of each paragraph.

It's not too crummy. You won't get it in your keyboard.

So shortly I've got writer, journalist and author, John Ronson.

His books include them, Adventures with Extremists.

The psychopath test, you've been publicly shamed and the men who stare at goats.

This latter one was made into a Hollywood movie starring George Clooney, just saying.

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