S5 E7: Adjoa Andoh, actress

Comfort Eating with Grace Dent

The Guardian

Arts, Food

4.5 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2023

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

Dropping into Grace’s living room for some prime time Comfort Eating is the actor Adjoa Andoh, best known for playing Lady Danbury in the Netflix hit Bridgerton. Sharing a platter of her tastiest morsels, Adjoa talks to Grace about jacking in a law degree, moving into a south London squat, joining a touring feminist theatre group while pregnant, the slog of serving up daily family meals and the joy of escaping it all on a secret Greek island where the only things to do are reading, swimming and scooping up mountains of hummus with fresh, warm bread 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

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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 is often that snack
0:25.8	you cobble together when you curled upon the sofa.
0:29.3	Each week I asked my guest 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 clothes door.
0:52.1	Hello friends, I'm in my kitchen as ever, counting down the minutes until my next guest arrives doing that thing when you're a little bit
0:54.7	nervous you start overthinking what you wear. I should have shaved my ankles.
0:59.1	Do you ever get that? I look like Teen Wolf but just from behind the knee I'm not taking this dress off though it is an
1:06.3	absolute banger hairy legs or not and it is just right for my guest the wonderful Adjoa Ando, who plays Lady Danbury in the cheeky, lusty mega hit show,
1:19.2	Bridgerton. Look, I know it's only acting, but I actually feel like an aristocrat in a swishy gown is about to ring my doorbell.
1:27.0	Now, what better last minute peck me up snack than a bag of pickled onion monster much. I've just unearthed them from behind
1:36.8	a box of copper soups in the cup and above the toaster. It's just the smell. The smell is 1983 vending machine at Carlisle swimming baths.
1:56.7	I love a crisp that hurts you.
2:02.2	On stage, Ajoieu has played lead roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National
2:08.5	Theatre. You'll recognise her off the tele from casualty and EastEnders and she may of the Sir Morgan Freeman in Clint Eastwood's film in Victor's.
2:24.4	She's been described by the Guardian's theatre critic
2:28.1	as extraordinarily expressive.
2:31.9	She once lived in a squat making ends meet by cleaning loose and being a life drawing model. But now her life is red carpets and adulation.
2:43.4	So I'm desperate to know what she turns to these days for sustenance and comfort.
2:49.1	When the curtain's down, the crowds have gone home, and she's having a little me time. I know what I turned to.
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