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Grace Dent


Born
in Carlisle, The United Kingdom
October 03, 1973

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British columnist, broadcaster and author.

Between 2003-2010, Dent published eleven young adult novels, and was also a presenter on BBC2's The Culture Show, and a magazine and newspaper journalist, including a TV column for the Guardian.

From 2011 to 2017 she wrote a restaurant column for the Evening Standard, and became the Guardian's restaurant critic in 2018. She is a regular judge on the BBC's MasterChef UK and makes frequent appearances in Channel 4's television series Very British Problems.

Grace said in her role as an author for teens: �....kids who claim to have never read anything longer than a text message are ploughing through my books nagging me for the next one. This makes me insanely proud.�

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“No, the rules of sneaking into upper-class spaces and passing as posh were much more nuanced; it was a spurious cocktail of bluffing and well-timed name-dropping, mixed with an air of pseudo-effortless confidence and sometimes, when faced with someone who was trying to impress you, giving”
Grace Dent, Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time

“The longer I lived in London, the further the gap grew between my tastes and theirs. And the more bewildered they were by my life choices. They were politely bewildered by my choice to get married in Vegas, wearing a forty-quid Laura Ashley tea frock, using witnesses”
Grace Dent, Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time

“If whelk is the first name on the list, it will almost definitely be course number one â€� unless the chef sends out three or four unadvertised courses beforehand, boosting the eight-course lunch up to twelve. I realise that nowadays almost all five-course tasting menus are actually around eight courses, because the chef will send ‘palate cleansersâ€� and ‘amuse-bouchesâ€� and ‘snacksâ€� and ‘extra coursesâ€�. This will seem generous but is actually just the restaurant buying time â€� a bit like when you go to a Beyoncé gig and three of the tracks are videos of her daughter at a family party, which is really cute, but it’s just filler so Beyoncé can sit down and change her wig.”
Grace Dent, Hungry: The Highly Anticipated Memoir from One of the Greatest Food Writers of All Time

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