How to eat out.

I’m a bit late coming to the scene with this one. 

It’s been on my radar for a long time. In fact he’s been on my radar for a long time, but it was a few years ago when one summer I worked at a newsagents in an airport. My long shifts meant that I used to collect the newspaper delivery and put it out for the 5am flight, and then I would gather them all up again to send back in the evening. 

One of the best bits of that job was my chance on a Saturday, in between the flights, to sit down with the inserts that fell out of The Times, and a cup of coffee from the stand across the waiting lounge. I had about an hour and a half before the next passengers came through, to indulge in two fantastic writers, Caitlin Moran and Giles Coren. 

Giles Coren is witty, sarcastic in the most British sense, and clever. His restaurant reviews are truthful and blunt, but with an air of elegance and politeness that means he never comes off as rude. Well, a lot of the time he doesn’t come off as rude, sometimes you’re surprised that restaurant owners haven’t tried to poison him yet. 

I sat down one rainy lunchtime, with a bar of Dorset Chocolate and How to Eat Out. Funny, filled with incredible anecdotes and full of flavour (on both the book and the chocolate), I looked up after the sun had set and the moon was shining. A perfect afternoon, with a book that I can't stop recommending and some of the best chocolate I have had since Belgium.