At home, we have fish and greens, fish and greens – maybe salmon steak with curried lentils. No poncy cooking goes on, we don’t have dinner parties, we don’t entertain.
GILES CORENWe built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at scary, cross-eyed rural people, and brought our food and family inside because they were the safest places to be.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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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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Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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Gentile smoked salmon is all… muscular and smells of smoke. It’s not very fatty. They don’t understand – smoked salmon should be almost spreadable! So you give them the real stuff and they can’t believe how delicious it is.
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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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A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant is a disastrous thing in a city of 10 million people just trying to muddle through.
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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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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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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
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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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Being a success in the world, having total control of one’s life, is about being able to take or leave things.
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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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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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