Jay Rayner famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Salt is the difference between eating in Technicolor and eating in black and white.
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In my experience of vegan food it tends to be a symphony of beige.
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English wine is like Belgian rock or German disco: a waste of everyone's time and money.
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One of my mottos for living is: never eat on a boat, unless you own the boat.
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Bad restaurants find unique ways to be bad. Good ones are good in the same way: good food, nice staff, a pleasant room. The human capacity for finding unique ways to screw things up always amazes me.
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People adore bad reviews. Nobody would be interested in reading the good ones.
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The tragedy of my job [journalist] is that I rarely get to go where I want to go. I have to go where the job takes me.
-- Jay Rayner
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An Englishman teaching an American about food is like the blind leading the one-eyed.
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
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Eating is always a decision, nobody forces your hand to pick up food and put it into your mouth.
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Food simply isn't important to me.
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Let things taste the way they are.
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I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.
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The most beautiful colors laid on at random, give less pleasure than a black-and-white drawing.
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If there had been no troublemakers, no Dissenters, we should still be living in caves.
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Problems are common, but attitude makes the difference!!!
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I have no purpose to introduce political and social equality between the white and black races. There is physical difference between the two which, in my judgment, will probably forever forbid their living together upon the footing of perfect equality, and inasmuch as it becomes a necessity that there must be a difference, I, as well as Judge Douglas, am in favor of the race to which I belong having the superior position.
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