Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin

Calvin Marshall Trillin (born December 5, 1935) is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist.

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Health food makes me sick.

Tags: Health, Food, Sick

Calvin Trillin

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.

Tags: Food, Mother, Nothing

Calvin Trillin

I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.

Tags: Over, Still, Off

Calvin Trillin

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.

Tags: Wise, Better, Saying

Calvin Trillin

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.

Tags: Book, Ever, Read

Calvin Trillin

I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.

Tags: Anything, Restaurant, Cook

Calvin Trillin

I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.

Tags: Throw, Canadians, Behaved

Calvin Trillin

Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.

Tags: Day, Children, Dark

Calvin Trillin

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.

Tags: Need, Cheered

Calvin Trillin

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.

Tags: Home, Stupid, Sad

Calvin Trillin

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