Of course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Nairobi.
GILES CORENI always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I’m at home more – and less of a disciplinarian.
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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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So what on Earth there isn’t to like about New York? I don’t know. But what you do also have is a load of very ordinary restaurants which you make a terrible fuss about which are really only very average. Which is fine. One doesn’t go to New York for the food.
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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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When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn’t, of course. I was just working in a clothes shop, but I was aware that it was exciting.
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I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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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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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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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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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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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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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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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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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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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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