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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.

Giles Coren

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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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
I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn’t have to, and my wife and I went out only for the good stuff. And I wrote mostly positive reviews. Not only. But mostly. And, ooooh, it felt an awful lot better.
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Awful Better Feel Felt Good Mostly Review Stuff Wife Wrote
I always say what I think to be amusing.
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I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I’m at home more – and less of a disciplinarian.
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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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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 always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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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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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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I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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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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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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The notion of getting pleasure from food has gone too far; we can also get pleasure from anticipating a meal, and from not being quite sated.
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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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