I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
GILES CORENYou 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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I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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I think unionization of labour is a great thing.
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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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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 always say what I think to be amusing.
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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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World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being available. And there’s all kinds of different kinds of restaurants.
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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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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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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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It doesn’t matter how much of a hurry you think you are in. Be one of the people for whom ten minutes does not make a difference.
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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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My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn’t want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist.
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