We 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.
GILES CORENI 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.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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I’m just a bit frustrated that in London we make such an effort to ape the New York restaurant scene. I have good friends who ape the New York restaurant scene and do it brilliantly. None of them would claim that the primary reason for going to their restaurant was the food.
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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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The first thing I remember is that my dad had a big iron Olivetti typewriter and he worked all night.
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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 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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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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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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People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you’re famous, but me? Me, I’m in the Premier Inn in Gillingham.
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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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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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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’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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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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I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
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