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
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.
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.
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.
law fool economics
"Law professors were never like economics professors," a Harvard Law professor told me. "If you disagreed with someone, you didn't call him a fool."
writing self-confidence thinking
I suppose that there are endeavors in which self-confidence is even more important than it is in writing -- tightrope walking comes immediately to mind -- but it's difficult for me to think of anybody producing much writing if his confidence is completely shot.
people pages funny-people
We all know funny people who can't get it down on the page - even funny writers who can't get it down on the page.
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.