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
brother president politics
The way I read Billy Carter's testimony, he was a model citizen himself until the voters went and ruined his life by making his brother President.
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.
funny astrology errors
The margin of error in astrology is plus or minus one hundred percent.
jewish-tradition giving vampire
Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away... Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.
people finals sitting
When helicopters were snatching people from the grounds of the American embassy compound during the panic of the final Vietcong push into Saigon, I was sitting in front of the television set shouting, Get the chefs! Get the chefs!
cities kansas-city long
It has long been acknowledged that the single best restaurant in the world is Arthur Bryant's Barbecue at Eighteenth and Booklyn in Kansas city.
hard-work ideas degenerates
Every good idea sooner or later degenerates into hard work.
food feet cooking
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
favors immigration restaurants
I'm in favor of liberalizing immigration because of the effect it would have on restaurants. I'd let just about everybody in except the English.
teacher teaching school
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
writing america may
In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while his article is still on the presses.
sound butlers concerned
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
funny mothers-day mom
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.
strong texas grease
Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease.