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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.

Giles Coren

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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Clearly Doctor Gardner Hairdresser Many Merchant Ridiculous Tailor
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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Children Competetive Cut Dad Monopoly Stack World
I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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Bad Come Country Press Reputation
I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself think, and found that I wasn’t. I am not designed to be lonely as a cloud.
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City Cloud Design Ear God Leve Lonely Myself Place Try
I have Gordon Ramsay to thank for my TV career because Channel 4 spent a long time trying to find him a sidekick for ‘The F Word’, then he suggested me, knowing I’d stand up to him.
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Career Channel Know People Sidekick Spent Stand Suggest
I sleep nine hours every night, I have a little nap after lunch, and, if I’m going out for dinner, I sneak in an extra one before I head out.
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Dinner Every Extra Head Hour Little Nap Night Nine Out Sleep Sneak
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
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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Ape Country Effort Frustrated Line Restaurant Scene
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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Abuse Campaign Car Hammer Ignorant Pretty Ride Selfish System Talk Taxation Tirelessly Travel Walk
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
The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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Big Dad First Iron Night Olivetti Remember Thing Typewriter Work
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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Anthropogenic Aware Ban Believer Environment Left Motor Urban Vehicle Wing
I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Greta Labor Thing Think Unionization
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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Arrow Brought Build Cross Family Food Inside People Place Rural Safety Scary Wall
A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.
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City Depend Entire Instant Madden Men Million Opinion People Strong Try
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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Critic Deliberate Expect General Hurtful Mean Restaurant Stupid

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