My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every… — Giles Coren Best friend 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 Complain 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… — Giles Coren City 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 Global 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… — Giles Coren Ancient greece 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… — Giles Coren Beginning 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… — Giles Coren Diet 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… — Giles Coren Dad Copy Share Image
Instant gratification is bringing this planet to its knees. — Giles Coren Instant gratification 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 Famous 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,… — Giles Coren Care 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… — Giles Coren Believe Copy Share Image
I tried to leave the city once, for one of those other places. And, my God, the silence. I could hear myself… — Giles Coren City Copy Share Image
As drivers desert the city I find myself clinging more and more to my father's belief that a man without a car… — Giles Coren Car Copy Share Image
I let the other reviewers eat the bad meals, so that I didn't have to, and my wife and I went out… — Giles Coren Bad Copy Share Image
My dad was very successful as a journalist, so I didn't want to be one. I wanted to be a novelist. — Giles Coren Dad Copy Share Image
I'm just a bit frustrated that in London we make such an effort to ape the New York restaurant scene. I have… — Giles Coren Effort Copy Share Image
We've got rid of subeditors because we don't need them. Because they were never necessary. They were just fetchers and gophers. They… — Giles Coren Job Copy Share Image
When I tell people I spent almost a year in Paris, I know they imagine something out of a Woody Allen movie,… — Giles Coren Clothes Copy Share Image
World cross-fertilization is fantastic. Immigration across the world has led to all kinds of fantastic new and exciting kinds of food being… — Giles Coren Being Copy Share Image
I have Gordon Ramsay to thank for my TV career because Channel 4 spent a long time trying to find him a… — Giles Coren Career Copy Share Image
I'm not a mad, crazy foodie. But I have strong opinions and I know a lot about food. — Giles Coren Crazy Copy Share Image
Mineral water is a preposterous vanity, either bottled in glass which is stupidly heavy to freight, or in plastic that ends up… — Giles Coren Either Copy Share Image
