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• Top Chef is a very smooth-running machine. All the people working there are incredibly professional and absolutely at the top of their…
• People in London think of London as the center of the world, whereas New Yorkers think the world ends three miles outside…
• I wouldn't describe myself as a master of anything.
• In Britain, by contrast, we still think that class plays a part in determining a person's life chances, so we're less inclined…
• I really like the Observer. I think I'd love to have a column with a broad reach that would enable me to…
• I've become a professional failure - in order to pay the mortgage I have to remain unemployed. Luckily, a disaster always seems…
• I've never been to a shrink. But my parents were very psychologically literate - my father had undergone Freudian analysis - and…
• I was once hired to write a column for 'The Guardian' and then got fired before I'd submitted my first one. That…
• I miss being fawned over by restaurateurs and chefs.
• America thinks of itself as a meritocracy, so people have more respect for success and more contempt for failure.
• I tried being a mechanic and I tried catering, but I realized I had even less aptitude for semi-skilled labour than for…
• Oddly, I do have a problem with authority. I find it very difficult to knuckle down and follow rules. Which are the…

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