People like me make modern life intolerable.
GILES CORENI’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’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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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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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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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie, which it wasn’t, of course. I was just working in a clothes shop, but I was aware that it was exciting.
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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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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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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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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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I know more than most journalists. I know more than most columnists on big, important newspapers.
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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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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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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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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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