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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.

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  1. 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 …
  2. The Jewish religion has it completely right in maintaining you should think very carefully about what you eat.
  3. Some critics think the way I write is somehow disrespectful to food. But how can you write a restaurant column without being entertaining? …
  4. I am very snobby. My family is Orthodox so I would never go to a Reform rabbi.
  5. I get so excited when I know I'm going to a good restaurant, then, when I do the review, I write myself up into such a frenzy that I have t…

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