I always feel quite Jewish but I used to deny it until I was in my twenties.
GILES CORENI 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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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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Where my dad taught me everything about writing, Graham Paterson, who gave me my first job at The Times, taught me everything about journalism, which is that it’s no big deal, and it’s more important to have a glass of wine.
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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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All I care about is that people who like me think I’m funny. I get on with writing pretty straight-down the line, old-fashioned stuff.
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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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I have a tailor now, I have a doctor, a wine merchant, a jeweller, a gardener, a cleaner, and a nanny. It was clearly ridiculous that I did not have a hairdresser. So I got one.
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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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At home, we have fish and greens, fish and greens – maybe salmon steak with curried lentils. No poncy cooking goes on, we don’t have dinner parties, we don’t entertain.
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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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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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My dad is the best and funniest newspaper columnist. There is nobody anywhere near as good.
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In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection.
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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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My sister’s also very, very competitive but she is more concerned than I am with being liked. So she hides it away. I try to make my competitiveness part of my charm.
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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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