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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.

Giles Coren

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
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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Country Course Denied Food Mouthful Nairobi
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
I come from a country where there’s a reputation for bad press.
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Bad Come Country Press Reputation
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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Came Fortune Glitter Good Job Life Night There Tyrn
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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Dinner Every Extra Head Hour Little Nap Night Nine Out Sleep Sneak
The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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Big Dad First Iron Night Olivetti Remember Thing Typewriter Work
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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Beneath Bus Feel Regard Rule Run Shake Somehow Still
I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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Communist Important Journalist Know More Most Newspaper
There is nothing wrong with getting a bus. Nothing in any way demeaning about boarding a huge smelly communal vehicle that will rumble noisily and very slowly in the vague direction of the place you need to get to and then dump you half a mile away in the freezing wind and rain.
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Bus Getting Nothing With Wrong
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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Delicious Fatty Feel Muscular Real Smell Smoke Stuff Understand
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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Both Day Education Glitter Grimness Grind Job Joy Relentless Restaurant Time
Personally I ride a bicycle, travel by train and bus and campaign tirelessly for a car taxation system that will hammer ignorant, selfish, petty, fat, spoilt, stupid car abusers into giving up their addiction and walking.
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Abuse Campaign Car Hammer Ignorant Pretty Ride Selfish System Talk Taxation Tirelessly Travel Walk
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
We’ve got rid of subeditors because we don’t need them. Because they were never necessary. They were just fetchers and gophers. They had a job, which has been superannuated by technology.
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Fetch Gopher Job Need Subeditor Supernatural Technology

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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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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