I wanted to be a great literary novelist so that people would eventually talk about Alan Coren the scribbler and father of the great Giles.

My dad was undeniably famous when I was a kid - he was on Wogan and Clive James and the radio every week, but as far as I was concerned he wasn't famous enough…

The Jewish religion has it completely right in maintaining you should think very carefully about what you eat.

Some critics think the way I write is somehow disrespectful to food. But how can you write a restaurant column without being entertaining? You might as well no…

hey Jack Kerouac I think of your mother and the tears she cried, she cried for none other than her little boy lost in our little world that hated and that dare…

Now my life is pretty much bliss. I have two healthy children and a great marriage (Emilio and I have been together for 28 years). I still have one ambition: t…

I will only make pictures that I won't be ashamed to have my children see.