Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Marshall Trillinis an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth5 December 1935
CountryUnited States of America
quality social bride-and-groom
At American weddings, the quality of the food is in inverse proportion to the social position of the bride and groom.
book writing lunch
A new regulation for the publishing industry: "The advance for a book must be larger than the check for the lunch at which it was discussed.
source
There's always a source for humor.
restaurants cooks knows
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
aunt people trying
Since nostaglia is fueled by inflation, could it be that inflation is the result of a conspiracy by the people who are trying to palm off McGovern buttons and Howdy Doody puppets and their Aunt Thelma's toaster as antiques.
numbers looks queues
Perhaps we've time to have a look at the Number Thirty-One bus queue before we turn in.
firsts burden restaurants
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
guy leaving bumblebees
If bumblebee leavings and stump paste are so good for you, why can't any of those guys (in the health stores) grow full beards?
christian queens kings
One advantage of a monarchy is that a monarchy does not suffer the effects of having great clots of white Christians moping around simply because they aren't the king or queen.
military smart mean
If General Haig is so smart, why did he finish 214th (out of 310) in his graduating class at West Point? Does that mean there are 213 generals his age who are smarter than he is?
colonialism sandwiches argument
The Banh Mi sandwich is really the only good argument for colonialism.
crazy thinking trying
With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.
long care feds
I don't care where I sit, as long as I get fed.
color dry natural
Anybody caught selling macrame in public should be dyed a natural color and hung out to dry.