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An Evening with Grace Dent

The deep connections between food, memory, love and life

The foods we turn to behind closed doors are deeply personal, saturated in  memories and topped with a healthy dollop of guilty pleasure. In Comfort Eating, Grace Dent throws open her kitchen cupboards to reveal why we hold these secret snacks, naughty nibbles and hand-me-down recipes so dear to our hearts.

We were joined by the author, critic and broadcaster – and one of our best loved writers on food – live at Union Chapel in October 2024 to discuss the deep connections between food, memory, love and life.


Speakers

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Grace Dent

Award winning author, broadcaster and restaurant critic. Her latest book is Comfort Eating.


Grace Dent long bio- columnist, broadcaster and author; she is the Guardian's restaurant critic and regularly appears as a judge on Masterchef UK. Dent was named restaurant writer of the year in 2022 and her memoir Hungry won the Lakeland Book of the Year and the Fortnum & Mason Food Book Award. She hosts the podcast Comfort Eating which was named podcast of the year at the 2022 British Media Awards. Her latest book is Comfort Eating: What We Eat When Nobody's Looking.
Host

Deborah Frances-White

Comedian and host of the The Guilty Feminist podcast


Award-winning writer and comedian, best known for her hit podcast THE GUILTY FEMINIST. The show has been recorded live around the world at venues including The Royal Albert Hall, The London Palladium, The Sydney Opera House and The Wellington Arena with over 200million downloads. Her book, THE GUILTY FEMINIST, is published by Virago Press at Hachette and is a Sunday Times Best Seller. Her second book SIX CONVERSATIONS WE’RE SCARED TO HAVE will also be published by Virago in April 2025. Her BBC Radio 4 show, DEBORAH FRANCES-WHITE ROLLS THE DICE, won The Writers’ Guild Award for Best Radio Comedy. She wrote the independent feature film, SAY MY NAME and her next movie, THE WISHBOARD, is in pre-production with Redwave Films. She is also currently writing the animated feature film, BAD FAIRIES, for Warner Brothers, with Locksmith Animation.