Comfort Eating by Grace Dent: Masterchef judge shares her food guilty pleasures including oven chips with instant gravy

Award-winning food writer and restaurant critic Grace Dent admits that when she gets home after a day of sampling highbrow delicacies in the MasterChef studios, she bungs in McCain oven chips and hurls Saxa salt at them followed by Sarson’s malt vinegar. The bag of chips is returned to her freezer where it sits alongside Birds Eye potato waffles, Magnums and a Warburtons Toastie white loaf in what she and her other half Charlie call ‘the Drawer of Deliciousness’.

There were individual trifles with the fruit salad at the bottom and set custard. “Right near the end of her life, I decided to introduce baba ganoush into her diet. It did not work. She was not keen at all and didn’t understand my fancy ways,” Dent says, chuckling, recalling that despite all her efforts taking her mum to posh restaurants over the years, her favourite eaterie remained McDonald’s – two cheeseburgers, fries and a Coca-Cola, her meal of choice.

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