The good fortune of my life, which has been to turn those glittering nights into my job, all came from there.
GILES CORENOf course you can get a decent mouthful of food in New York. You can get a decent mouthful of food in Nairobi.
More Giles Coren Quotes
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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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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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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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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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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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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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I’m not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food.
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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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Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees.
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I have quite good general knowledge and I had a very drilled education from an early age. I do know more than most people.
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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 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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Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant.
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My time in Paris was an education in both the grimness of a relentless, grinding day job and the joys of nights in glittering restaurants.
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The way I write possibly shouldn’t be turned on serious things.
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