I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
GILES CORENMineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up in one of the plastic patches the size of Texas occupying our oceans.
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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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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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My dad never really wrote what he thought. None of his inner rage and darkness and problems, which we all have, made it on to the page. For him, writing was a process of making everything appear funny.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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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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As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.
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All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.
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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.
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So what on Earth there isn’t to like about New York? I don’t know. But what you do also have is a load of very ordinary restaurants which you make a terrible fuss about which are really only very average. Which is fine. One doesn’t go to New York for the food.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
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Mineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up in one of the plastic patches the size of Texas occupying our oceans.
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Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.
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People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you’re famous, but me? Me, I’m in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.
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