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I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.

Giles Coren

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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Delicious Fatty Feel Muscular Real Smell Smoke Stuff Understand
Of course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Nairobi.
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Country Course Denied Food Mouthful Nairobi
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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Country Drive Either Furious Good Innate Separate Taught Unable Understand
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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Complain Country Develop Food Friend Gradually Restaurant Taught
When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn’t, of course. I was just working in a clothes shop, but I was aware that it was exciting.
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Cloth Excite Imagine Movie People Shop Sometime Work Year
I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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Crazy Food Foodie Mad Opinion Strong
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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Being Control Have Leave Life One Success Take Thing Word
I used to be so angry. I think back to my early days as a critic in the late 1990s, and I blush.
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Angry Back Blush Critic Day Early Late Think Use
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates the invention of trousers.
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Ancient City Country Environmental Human Idea Invention Live Long Not Predate Since Trouser
You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.
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Actual Decent Enough Food Hard Lok Mouthful Wound
I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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Communist Important Journalist Know More Most Newspaper
When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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Inhabit Me Not Personally Write
There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.
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Bus Getting Nothing With Wrong
The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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Possible Serious Thing Turn Way Write
My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering restaurants.
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Both Day Education Glitter Grimness Grind Job Joy Relentless Restaurant Time
Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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Been Countryside Do Nothing Small

I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.

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