Grace Dent
@gracedent
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⭐️🕷️ @imacelebrity 2023 #TeamGrace 🕷️⭐️ | Million Dollar Buffet (Netflix) | MasterChef (BBC1) | Comfort Eating S5 (Guardian). 📧 [email protected]
Joined June 2008
This week’s Guardian restaurant column is about a northern chip shop. This comment has kept me awake. I. I just. What.
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Just made the smoothie recipe Neil Diamond gave me. Swede, carrot, lime.
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Brian Eno's cat wants you to stick to the pre-agreed questions.
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I went to Errol Brown’s restaurant once. I had the tasting menu. It started with a quiche.
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I think we should all probably get today off, tbh. Paul O' Grady is worth it.
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If you are a bit blue, can I recommend back to back Ghosts? Warning: you may fall in love with Robin.
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If you see a dog in a little fancy coat and you don’t say under your breath, ‘Oh, he’s got a little fancy coat’, are you even ALIVE?.
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Nope. Nope. Nopey nope. Nope.
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You be you, Holly lass x.
Every year, Katmai National Park and Preserve crowns a Fat Bear of the Year. This year's winner was bear 435, named Holly. A former park ranger notes that “Holly was single this summer and able to devote all her energy toward herself". (Image: Katmai National Park & Preserve.)
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The war on processed food is delicious MSG sprinkled Class War. By me
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Thank you for all your lovely @SaturdayKitchen messages and to everyone who has got in touch about my book Hungry. It means a lot right now xx
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Although, YES, I had trouble recalling my own name on Celebrity Mastermind, I did raise money for my heroes @oaktreeanimals . and I got to chat up Joe Pasquale. And THAT, friends,🏆🏆 is a good day at work.
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An extract of my new book HUNGRY. Out this week. About dads, food, love, loss, life. ❤️
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Masterchef. TONIGHT. BBC1. 9PM. come and hear our difficult second album. xx
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spare a thought for this busy fella xx.
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What is a restaurant? How do I use one? A refresher guide for April 12th by me for @guardian
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Man lives the full majesty of 'travelling north' experience. contains Preston.
I’m not quite sure how to explain what’s happened tonight, because it’s still happening - but here goes…. At 4:40pm I jumped on a train from London to Edinburgh. It was comfy, it was quiet. In hindsight, too good to last….
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Was fairly smug about breaking my decades long reality TV addiction. Until I had a 'quick look' at Below Deck.
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I will never call this place X. See me about Opal Fruits, Top Cat and 'videoing' stuff off Sky.
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Already reached the 'mince pie and blob of rum butter' for breakfast stage.
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I would like to recommend The Terror on iPlayer, in so much as I fear I will never be the same again. Hold me.
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My dad would look up from his paper at Legs&Co every single week and say, dryly, 'This is the dance 'yer mam was doing when I met her' every week. #totp.
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The Calm app thinks Cillian Murphy whispering in your ear about the Irish countryside is a ‘sleep aid’.
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Abandoned teabags, badly stacked dishwashers and ketchup in the fridge. Love is ignoring all this. A column by me for @guardian.
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Do you like cheese? Do you want a restaurant where every COURSE is cheese? Do you like cheese even better on a boat? Jeez, have I got a place for you!
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'Walk-ins only. We do take reservations for parties of 5 and over'.Me:.
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Trench foot, double-bookers and eating in the car park. A column about April 12th dining. Are you coming out? By me 🥰
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Yes, a column about the hell of folk who fritter fridge space STORING KETCHUP. but then 400+ amazing comments where readers VENT about kitchen sharing. Weekend joy. by me for @guardian .
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🎄🎄Allow me to keep you company over Christmas and into January on @BBCRadio2 where I'll be hosting EARLY BREAKFAST while Vanessa has a little break. Get the kettle on. Yes I WILL have a stuffing sandwich. 🎄🥰🥰
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Good morning to everyone except the person who wrote ep 5 of Mare of Easttown.
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HUNGRY is out today. (thank you to everyone who got in touch about the Guardian extract and my dad. Your kindness was overwhelming. thank you) Gracie xx
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'Aiming to leave lockdown with fewer boobs on my back than my front' Cutting carbs and other acts of torture. A column. by me for @guardian
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I was kicked out of the PJ and Duncan 'friends n family' after party at the Royal Albert Hall in '96 for being identified as neither friend or family. A dark moment.
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adele's speech = every voicemail ever left after 2 litres of Pinot Grigio Blush. #BRITs2016.
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I am so so thrilled @LakesBookAwards to win Book of The Year. I'm so sorry I couldn't be there. Thank you for being so kind. I wish my mam had lived long enough to see this. thank you XXX.
An extraordinary life, and it all began in Carlisle! Congratulations to @gracedent - Hungry is our well-deserved 2021 Book of the Year!
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this is a lovely story x.
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@nypost 'I'm so glad we bought this delightful chalet next to the health spa and omg omg omg'.
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. a national holiday where we all sit on the sofa with cocoa watching a pithy Scouse man rescue a vintage chihuahua.
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Thank you ❤️ to everyone who made Hungry a Kindle number 1 and for the 1,148 Amazon reviews. Paperback coming soon for beach-read. (Skegness beach) Events in 2021. Details soon.
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When you catch a sibling wearing your jacket. Especially last 3 seconds.
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This Friday on BBC4 at 7pm -I'm presenting What We Were Watching: Song and Dance Spectaculars!! Including Legs & Co, Marti Caine, The Young Generation, Pan's People and LOTS OF DANCING. (It is 1 solid hour of pure happiness).
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What a beautiful day. What a beautiful day for sticking a cucumber through a letterbox and shouting 'Help the martians have landed'. #KenDodd.
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For everyone 'not ready' for Christmas but are going to hold things down like a queen anyway. My very favourite Christmas thing ever.
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Watching @louistheroux new BBC2 Sunday 9pm doc on alcohol. It is excellent. Please watch.
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#rescueismyfavouritebreed Today we launched the new campaign from Battersea - 'RESCUE IS MY FAVOURITE BREED' I kept calm and professional throughout. Ad on ITV1 during The X Factor Celebs. Look at these little clouds of love!!!! @Battersea_ #rescueismyfavouritebreed
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The food in Starbucks has got oddly good…and Wahaca has replaced Wagamama as my chain of choice. Stop booing me I’m right.
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No Marrowfat peas left in Workington, and other dilemmas. A column about shopping for other folk. by me
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Dear Twitter. I asked you to donate to The Rock Youth Project in Currock so the kids could have a Christmas party, and you did, so they had the party and it was brilliant and they had pass-the-parcel and a dj and face-painting and chocolate and dancing and actual SANTA.
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Comfort Eating: my chance to talk about the really, truly important things. For example, chips. A column about the new project. @guardian.
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low-key campaign for national anthem to be replaced with Pure by The Lightning Seeds. sign here.
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@Baddiel I never rule out when I am being 'washed' by a cat that I'm more likely being marinaded.
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The Untold won 🏆🏆 two awards at last night’s BBC Radio awards: Best Documentary and Best Storytelling. ❤️❤️ We are v proud.
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and FWIW 'Happy Kitchen Bears' has made me laugh for 3 days. I'm laughing now.
Very funny guys. We only rate dogs. Please do not send in Happy Kitchen Bears. We will not rate them. Thank you. 12/10
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Do these women both realise they have been warring for THREE solid weeks over LEE FROM BLUE #cbb.
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When my glorious reign begins, I shall show this 7 mins at 3pm every single Christmas Day. (warning, v sweary)
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Never seen this before. I needed it 🥰🎄🥰.
👓🎄♥️December 16th 2021♥️🎄👓. It’s really not Christmas without a bit of Morecambe and Wise…. the GREATEST 39 seconds in comedy history…. Have a great day Sunshines!. #EricAndErnAdventCalendar2021🎄#PassItOn👈🏻
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Would watch 1 hour drama revolving solely around this plot point:
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‘Like all sane people, I put the cream on the scone first’ - An afternoon tea, by me for @guardian
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