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A. A. Gill
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A. A. (Adrian Anthony) Gill (born June 28, 1954) is a British newspaper
columnist and writer. He is also restaurant reviewer in the Style
section of the London Sunday Times, and a television critic in the 
Culture section in the same paper. His reviews are famously short on
detail about the food itself. [1]

He was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, and studied at the Central Saint
Martins College of Art and Design and the Slade School of Art. He has a 
long-term relationship with Nicola Formby, who appears in his columns
as "The Blonde".

He was once famously ejected from Gordon Ramsay's restaurant along with
his dining partner Joan Collins. Ramsay's reason was that Gill had 
written a review of his restaurant that covered his personal life more
than the food.

Quotes
Gill is notorious for his acerbic, provocative style, on one occasion
in 1997 damaging his career by describing the Welsh as: 

"loquacious dissemblers, immoral liars, stunted, bigoted, dark, ugly,
pugnacious little trolls,"
While two years later he angered Germans with an article called
"Hunforgiven" [2], making numerous references to their Nazi past. In 
2004, when writing about the ITV drama Island at War, based on the
German occupation of Jersey and Guernsey, he asked:

"What have the Channel Islands ever done for us? A couple of really
expensive potatoes, a few flowers and fatty milk." 
His comments were widely condemned in the islands as offensive and
inaccurate [3].

On being mistaken for an Englishman he stated:

I don't like the English. One at a time, I don't mind them. I've
loved some of them. It's their collective persona I can't warm to: 
the lumpen and louty, coarse, unsubtle, beady-eyed, beefy-bummed herd
of England.
The truth is - and perhaps this is a little unworthy, a bit shameful
- I find England and the English embarrassing. Fundamentally 
toe-curlingly embarrassing. And even though I look like one, sound like
one, can imitate the social/mating behaviour of one, I'm not one. I
always bridle with irritation when taken for an Englishman, and fill in 
those disembarkation cards by pedantically writing "Scots" in the
appropriate box (The Angry Island).
Many of his articles can be found on the travel writing and hotel
revewing website he founded in 2000, http://www.travelintelligence.net
- see http://www.travelintelligence.net/php/writers/writ.php?id=22 

Keep in mind that the guy does not do research and pulls information
out of nowhere and most of the time is off base. Quoting his
unresearched work would be a huge mistake. From his writings one could
see how unhappy he is and that reflects negatively on his persona.


Bibliography
Sap Rising (1997)
Ivy Cookbook (1999) co-author
Starcrossed (1999)
AA Gill is Away (2003) collection of travel writing. ISBN 0753816814 
The Angry Island (2005) a book about England and the English. ISBN
0297843184

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