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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.

Giles Coren

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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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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You can get a decent mouthful of food in Warsaw or Chad if you look hard enough. It’s just I wouldn’t actually go there looking for the food.
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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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Beneath Bus Feel Regard Rule Run Shake Somehow Still
When I write I inhabit a personality that is and is not me.
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Inhabit Me Not Personally Write
I have Gordon Ramsay to thank for my TV career because Channel 4 spent a long time trying to find him a sidekick for ‘The F Word’, then he suggested me, knowing I’d stand up to him.
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Career Channel Know People Sidekick Spent Stand Suggest
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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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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Country Dumpling Field Fine Forebear Labour Lifestyle People Polish Potato Unsuitable Urban
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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I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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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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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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Beginning City Huddle Own Protection
The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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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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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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Bring Gratification Instant Knee Planet
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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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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