Eat My Globe Quotes

“We were tempted to have T-shirts made that said on the front: “We May Not Be Hip Enough To Drink Here, But We Are Rich Enough To Live Here,” and on the back in larger letters: “Fuck Off Back To Clapham.” Like giving the finger to the bridge-and-tunnel crowd.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“There is no need to travel with a library full of guidebooks. Most airports have at least one decent bookstore to buy a guide to your next destination. Always leave your guidebooks behind for someone else to benefit from. I picked up at least one extra guide in every hostel and bed-and-breakfast I stayed in and always left mine behind.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“Before independence from Britain, Bengal was one of the largest states in India. Now it is split into two, West Bengal, where Kolkata is located, and East Bengal, which became East Pakistan and, afterward, the beautiful but blighted nation of Bangladesh.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“Each blend, he explained was designed for the tastes of different countries: Thick, strong teas for the Middle East, consistent but mediocre blends for the United Kingdom, where, he explained we drink a huge volume of tea, but not of great quality. He was most disparaging about the tea that’s drunk in the United States, where, in my own unscientific experience, it would easier to find Bigfoot than a decent cup of tea.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“Rajasthan, which is India with training wheels.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“Kolkata is like an ex-girlfriend who you know is bad for you, but about whom you cannot stop thinking. She has always let you down and treated you badly, and you have promised yourself hundreds of times that you are not going to spend any more time in her company. But, then, just as you think you are finally over her, she does something so utterly alluring, so impossibly irresistible, you find yourself falling in love again.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“gut-wrenching poverty and the crumbling buildings and roads seem to suggest that, when the British left, they took all their tools with them.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“He really was a man after my own heart attack.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“I am happy to share with you my very successful technique for staying alive in Vietnam: Never be ashamed to use a local as a human shield.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“Making whisky is like making pornography. Both need good wood.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“I did what any self-respecting man does when there is lots to be done. I opened a bottle of wine and poured myself a large glass, despite the fact it was barely past eleven in the morning, and sat back in a comfortable chair to watch the fun.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“However good New York is, it will never be quite as good as New Yorkers believe it to be. Nothing will ever be quite as good as New Yorkers believe everything in their city to be.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“Once you get over the initial fear, Tokyo’s subway system, its main method of public transportation, turns out to be an absolute delight. Even when it is heaving with people, as it always is, and even though the map looks like an eighty-year-old woman’s knitting basket after the cat has got at it, the cars are air-conditioned which, for someone coming from London, is enough to make you refuse ever to get off. I was tempted to take off most of my clothing, pack a picnic, and make a day of it.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“After I gestured for a beer, a rather frighteningly large bottle of Sapporo appeared, but, just as I reached out for it, a man on my right reached over and took hold of my bottle. Where I was brought up, in Yorkshire, touching someone else’s beer is worse that goosing his wife. It will inevitably lead to a fight and there may well be broken glass and teeth involved. “Pouring own drink bad luck,” said the man with his hand around my beer. So, I allowed him to pour my beer and we began a very faltering conversation.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“Aussies promulgating this myth are usually living elsewhere at the time and show little inclination to return.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“Good things cannot be rushed.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“In the current climate of immediate gratification, it is a welcome change to have food or drink that is not, nor was ever meant to be, served quickly”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“Britain and Ireland’s relationship with their food is one of the most confused in the world. With the possible exception of the United States, we are probably the farthest removed from the sources of production of our food than any nation on earth.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything

“within my tolerance levels of never living more than fifteen minutes from the nearest source of Madagascan vanilla extract.”
― Simon Majumdar, Eat My Globe: One Year to Go Everywhere and Eat Everything