Ask a footballer what they can cook and they always say spaghetti. It is what you reach for when there is nothing else left in the larder. It's poor people's food and it's unsophisticated. It's the same as bread -… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Gradually, I developed opinions about food, and my French friends taught me that you have to complain in a restaurant. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
A man of strong opinions is one thing. But a man whose strong opinions depend entirely on how he is feeling in that instant… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
As a broadly left-wing, environmentally aware urban believer in anthropogenic global warming, I am all for a total ban on motor vehicles. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Not since Ancient Greece have cities been thought of as the ideal living environment for humans. And that was so long ago it predates… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
In the beginning, we huddled in cities for our own protection. We built walls around them with slits through which to fire arrows at… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
It was fine for my Polish Ashkenazi forebears to live on dumplings and potatoes, because they laboured in the fields. But that diet is… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
I was 41 when I became a dad. I try to be as much fun as my father was, but I'm at home more… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
People think you get paid millions by the BBC if you're famous, but me? Me, I'm in the Premier Inn in Gillingham. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
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. — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
Gentile smoked salmon is all... muscular and smells of smoke. It's not very fatty. They don't understand - smoked salmon should be almost spreadable!… — Giles Coren Copy Share Image
