Art Smith may not have been the winning chef on Top Chef Masters, but he was the best at bringing the drama, associating food with emotions and generally oversharing. (As befits a guy who used to be Oprah’s chef.) Also, he specialized in the kind of down-home food that people like to eat, and to ogle on TV.

So it makes sense that he would parlay his Masters experience into his own show, one that focuses on comfort food and whose very titled suggests thinly veiled psychodrama. TLC has ordered eight episodes of Craving Comfort with Art Smith, in which the host will find the personal stories behind the fat-, salt- and sugar-laden yummies that we use to numb the hurt deep, deep within.

Read the excerpts from the release after the jump, while I go and stress-binge: