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
father thinking yale
Before I was born [my father] wanted me to go specifically to Yale, which he thought would help. It was easy for him to think I could be president: he didn't have to worry about being president himself, being ineligible because he wasn't born in the United States.
father taken italian
Given the clientele, the restaurants on Capri might resemble those fancy Northern Italian places on the East Side of Manhattan where the captain has taken bilingual sneering lessons from the maitre d' at the French joint down the street and the waiter, whose father was born in Palermo, would deny under torture that tomato sauce has ever touched his lips.
teacher math answers
Math was always my bad subject. I couldn't convince my teachers that many of my answers were meant ironically.
fun california america
There is a theory that sooner or later anything in America that is any fun at all will be ruined by people from California.
mean unions slave
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
years eight meals
There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.
drinking ambition neckties
Marriage is part of a sort of 50′s revival package that's back in vogue along with neckties and naked ambition.
writing inappropriate ifs
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
book phones chinese
Once, in Lisbon, I tried my best to work the phone book in a way that would assuage a longing [Alice and I] had for certain Chinese dishes . . . .
wells
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
firsts burden restaurants
Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.
thinking two way
By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?
world republican
Why in the world are you a Republican?
book easier
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.