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.
GILES CORENBeing a success in the world, having total control of one’s life, is about being able to take or leave things.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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I’m just a bit frustrated that in London we make such an effort to ape the New York restaurant scene. I have good friends who ape the New York restaurant scene and do it brilliantly. None of them would claim that the primary reason for going to their restaurant was the food.
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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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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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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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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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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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People like me make modern life intolerable.
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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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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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I used to be a very angry person, I used to throw things and break them. Then I had five years of constant psycho-analysis, and I don’t get angry any more.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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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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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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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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I always say what I think to be amusing.
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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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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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I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.
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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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As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles.
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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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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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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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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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