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Being a success in the world, having total control of one’s life, is about being able to take or leave things.

Giles Coren

I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn’t much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I’d call Richard Widmark or Gregory Peck and we’d restage the Battle of the Alamo.
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We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at scary, cross-eyed rural people, and brought our food and family inside because they were the safest places to be.
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How clever am I? I’m really quite clever. I mean, look, I’ve got a first-class degree from Oxford.
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When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn’t already do it – for driving, to him, was innate in the human. It was what separated us from the apes. And from the French, who weren’t much good at it either.
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It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is unsuitable for an urban lifestyle.
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Gentile smoked salmon is all… muscular and smells of smoke. It’s not very fatty. They don’t understand – smoked salmon should be almost spreadable! So you give them the real stuff and they can’t believe how delicious it is.
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The world’s most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children.
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Being a success in the world, having total control of one’s life, is about being able to take or leave things.
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I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.
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Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn’t want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.
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We’ve got rid of subeditors because we don’t need them. Because they were never necessary. They were just fetchers and gophers. They had a job, which has been superannuated by technology.
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Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
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