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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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Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
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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 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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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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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 think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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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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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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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 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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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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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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