The world’s most competitive man, my dad. Wouldn’t let us win at Monopoly… he wouldn’t cut any slack for his children.
GILES CORENAt home, we have fish and greens, fish and greens – maybe salmon steak with curried lentils. No poncy cooking goes on, we don’t have dinner parties, we don’t entertain.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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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 feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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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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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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My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
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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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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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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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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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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 would go swaggering into restaurants in some ridiculous tramp disguise, challenging them to mistreat me, order the things I was least likely to enjoy, then hurl my plate aside in a fury and demand to see the manager.
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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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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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