Torode, who has introduced alongside Wallace since 2005, added, “I’ve cherished working with Grace on MasterChef over time. She has been a superb visitor, an inspiring critic and likewise set some unbelievable challenges.”
This is what we learn about Celeb MasterChef’s latest star.
Grace Dent bought her begin as a restaurant critic
Dent was born in Hampshire and grew up in Cumbria. She went on to check English Literature on the College of Stirling.
“I grew up on beige meals and mince and Findus Crispy Pancakes and butterscotch Angel Delight,” she instructed Cloth Journal of her early experiences with meals. “And supermarkets had been an enormous factor in my childhood, as a result of this was when the actually massive supermarkets arrived and to me, good meals was about having the most effective manufacturers. To have the ability to have correct Coca-Cola and Smiths crisps… I nonetheless love these kinds of meals right this moment.”
She started her profession in journalism with an editorial assistant place at Marie Claire earlier than working as a freelancer writing for the likes of Cosmopolitan, The Guardian and, we’re very proud to say, Glamour.
After shifting to London, she found a brand new culinary world. “I actually fell in love with eating places. I fell in love with the truth that I had come to a metropolis the place lots of of recent eating places open each single yr – and lots of shut,” she stated. “It’s this ever-moving land of change and many and innovation. And that simply blew my thoughts.”
From 2011 to 2017, wrote a restaurant column for the Night Normal and in 2018, she was named restaurant critic at The Guardian.
“In case you have a look at me after which have a look at the opposite restaurant critics, who I like very a lot, certainly one of us will not be just like the others! I all the time say that it’s an absolute fluke that I’m in, doing what I do,” she stated. “The one purpose that I’m doing it’s as a result of it is likely one of the solely issues I can do. I’ve a really small skill-set – I’m good at describing eating places, and I’m good at describing tastes and flavours, and I’m good at promoting the thought of why someplace is totally sensible, or having the ability to rattling with faint reward to place you off spending £250 there as a result of it’s not superb.”
Grace Dent can also be a novelist
Along with her profession as a journalist, Dent has additionally authored quite a lot of books. Her first trilogy, LBD, was revealed by Puffin Books within the early 2000s. Then got here the Diary of a Chav sequence from 2006 till 2009. In 2009 and 2010, she launched two extra novels referred to as the Diary of a Snob sequence.
She has additionally written two memoirs, Hungry: A memoir of wanting extra in 2020 and Consolation Consuming, in 2023.
Consolation Consuming
You may additionally know Grace Dent due to her podcast, Consolation Consuming, through which she speaks to celebrities about their consuming habits.