How I gave up fine dining

‘I’m hallucinating food, and not yer fancy-schmancy restaurant food’

• Bim Adewunmi gives up Twitter
• Alexis Petridis gives up being grumpy
• Jess Cartner-Morley gives up heels

“You have the best job in the world,” is what almost everyone says to me on the rare occasions I tell them what I do for a living. (Closely followed by “I could do that”, but let’s not go there.)

I’d agree with them: I’m ridiculously lucky to be able to indulge my love for restaurants on an almost daily basis – way more when I’m abroad – and my job frequently fills me with joy. It also fills me with a lot of other stuff.