S5 E6: Mary McCartney, photographer

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 31 October 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Joining Grace for some generous, multi-layered Comfort Eating is the photographer and TV chef, Mary McCartney. Hailing from one of the most famous families of 20th-century culture, Mary lets us into the culinary secrets of the McCartney family – from her dad Paul’s perfect mash to her mum Linda’s ice-cream cake – and the family trips to New York where they’d hit pizza restaurants in search of that perfect slice. Grace and Mary share their love of evenings on the sofa, scouse dads and how they coped after losing their mums to breast cancer. Buy Grace’s new Comfort Eating book, inspired by the podcast, here. The book is a wonderfully scrumptious, life-affirming journey through the foods that really mean the most to us. Mary McCartney’s new book Feeding Creativity is out now.

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0:00.0	This is the Guardian.
0:08.0	I'm Grace Dent and this is Comfort Eating from the Guardian.
0:14.0	A podcast where we pay homage to the lesser celebrated foods in life.
0:19.0	Because even as a restaurant critic, I believe the food that matters most
0:24.0	is often nut snack, it cobbled together when you curled upon a sofa.
0:29.0	Each week, I asked my guests to lift the lid on what comfort foods have seen them through their lives.
0:36.0	Because you can tell a lot about a person from what they eat behind closed doors.
0:44.0	Friends, welcome. You find me in my kitchen musing of a one of life's fundamental dilemmas.
0:51.0	Are you a Beatles or a stone's person?
0:55.0	I think the world divides neatly into the two camps.
0:59.0	Myself, you see, I like the raw sexiness of the stones.
1:03.0	But then it is the Beatles who seem to reveal themselves more to me as I age.
1:09.0	Which is why I'm beside myself.
1:11.0	Because a member of the McCartney family is swinging away over to my place in a taxi right now.
1:17.0	Mary McCartney will be here very shortly.
1:22.0	Now, before she gets here, I am having the absolute top tier of sneaky snacks.
1:32.0	What I'm having here is something I've been eating since the 70s.
1:37.0	It's a derrily triangle.
1:39.0	What am I having it with, you're asking?
1:41.0	Absolutely nothing. It's just primordial goo in my mouth.
1:47.0	Now, that is 1978.
1:54.0	And my mother shouting, you know, you're in derrily triangles out of the fridge, are you?
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