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I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.

Giles Coren

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.
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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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He was a staffer at Punch but in the evening he wrote columns for the Evening Standard and The Times.
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As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father’s belief that a man without a car is not really a man.
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I had become mean and stupid and deliberately hurtful because that is what is expected of restaurant critics. Of critics in general.
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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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My dad Alan loved Westerns and we watched them together when there wasn’t much else on TV. I had toy cowboys I’d call Richard Widmark or Gregory Peck and we’d restage the Battle of the Alamo.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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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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When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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How clever am I? I’m really quite clever. I mean, look, I’ve got a first-class degree from Oxford.
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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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I always say what I think to be amusing.
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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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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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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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