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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.

Giles Coren

Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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Complain Country Develop Food Friend Gradually Restaurant Taught
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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Dad Everything First Job Laugh Person Taught Time
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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Car City Cling Desert Driver Father Great Man More Really Without
When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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Inhabit Me Not Personally Write
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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Anticipate Being Far Food Gone Meal Motion Pleasure Quite
You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.
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Actual Decent Enough Food Hard Lok Mouthful Wound
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
But still I can never shake the feeling that buses are somehow beneath me. Which is why I have a rule regarding their use: I never, ever run for one. And nor should you.
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Beneath Bus Feel Regard Rule Run Shake Somehow Still
How clever am I? I’m really quite clever. I mean, look, I’ve got a first-class degree from Oxford.
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Class Clever Country Degree First Look Mean
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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Age Drill Early Education General Knowledge Most People Quite
I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Greta Labor Thing Think Unionization
I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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Communist Important Journalist Know More Most Newspaper
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
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
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
My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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Anywhere Best Columnist Dad Funny Good Newspaper Nobody

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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