Davies’s butter pepper rice to Scarlett Moffat’s crushed Wotsit-topped beans on toast and many, many more . He tells Grace about growing up in a conservative religious household, being brought home by the police. Food is never just food; as any vegetarian who found herself eating a pork pie before a 20-week pregnancy scan will know.

Because, of course, to talk about comfort food is so often to talk about childhood, home, family and formative experiences. As Dent puts it herself: “There’s nothing about life in late 20th-century north-west England that isn’t faintly hilarious in print, and I would not swap a single, solitary second. Just a quick message from Grace to say no new episode of Comfort Eating today, as she’s at home on the couch eating cold roasties and stuffing sarnies, enjoying all the Christmas telly. The pair talk about his life – after she has to run to the kitchen to spit out the food he brought round. She infuses the book with warmth and gentle humour but also a poignancy and wisdom that is rather lovely.

She transported me back to my childhood and my teen years and all the different foods I used to eat then. Chippy teas, gas fires, formidable older female relatives, Saturday morning telly, sliced bread, pyjamas, pebble dash, margarine and wind-whipped beaches smelling of vinegar are everywhere in this book.

Photograph: David Burden Photography/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Simple pleasures … boiled eggs with soldiers. This week, he tells Grace about his passion for TV dinners, his rivalry with Louis Theroux and his life as a failed band manager. The book is written brilliantly and the introduction was quite emotional about the death of Grace’s mum, but there was many memories that food can bring back to you.

Ive watched her on Masterchef for years, praising a well cooked guinea fowl, decadant chcolate tortes and frowning when presented with undercooked lamb and watery sauces. Every Tuesday, she invites over celebs who open up on their experiences with family, friends and food. Loved all the references to 70s and 80s food trends, packaging and advertising - stuff that I’d been given growing up and forgotten about…Country Life butter advert still making me chuckle.