The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
GILES CORENMy dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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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 is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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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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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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People like me make modern life intolerable.
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Have you ever been to the countryside? It’s so small. And there’s nothing to do.
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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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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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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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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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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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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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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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It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is unsuitable for an urban lifestyle.
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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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