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
mean unions slave
If Lincoln freed the slaves and preserved the Union, how come 'Lincolnesque' just means tall?
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?
mean gestalt may
I've decided to skip 'holistic'. I don't know what it means, and I don't want to know. That may seem extreme, but I followed the same strategy toward 'Gestalt' and the 'Twist', and lived to tell the tale.
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.
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.
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.
book easier
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
monday writing sunday
You know, I used to say, when people say, 'How do you think about what to write about in the poems every week?' And I say, 'Well, I have to turn it in on Monday, so on Sunday nights I turn the shower to iambic pentameter and it sort of works out that way.'
real kids years
I suppose it's possible that the Sundance Kid didn't like to make much of his birthdays — they may have struck him as just another reminder that his draw was getting slower by the year—but what if he truly liked a major celebration? What if he looked forward every year to marking the day of his birth with what they used to call in the West 'a real wingding, with pink balloons and a few survivors'?
wise preparation chinese
When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.