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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

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
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
I always say what I think to be amusing.
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Always Anything Say Thing
When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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Inhabit Me Not Personally Write
Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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Been Countryside Do Nothing Small
He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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Column Evening Punch Staffer Standard Time Wrote
When I was 16 my dad taught me to drive too. Furiously. Unable to understand why I couldn’t already do it – for driving, to him, was innate in the human. It was what separated us from the apes. And from the French, who weren’t much good at it either.
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Country Drive Either Furious Good Innate Separate Taught Unable Understand
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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Analysis Angry Break Constant Five Person Physio Thing Use Year
I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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Always Quite Deny Jewish Twenties Use
I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn’t have to, and my wife and I went out only for the good stuff. And I wrote mostly positive reviews. Not only. But mostly. And, ooooh, it felt an awful lot better.
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Awful Better Feel Felt Good Mostly Review Stuff Wife Wrote
I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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Greta Labor Thing Think Unionization
I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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Crazy Food Foodie Mad Opinion Strong
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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Challenge Demand Disguise Hurt Likely Manager Mistreat Order Plate Restaurant Ridiculous Swagger Think Tramp
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
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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Beginning City Huddle Own Protection
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

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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