Synopses & Reviews
Calvin Trillin is America's funniest food writer. He is passionate about good cookingnot haute cuisine but genuine good food. What he likes to write about is eating rather than food. Known to his fans as a "happy eater," he is also a highly-respected journalist and a nimble humorist. It is this unique combination of talents that makes
The Tummy Trilogy such a wonderfully entertaining collection. Includes
American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and
Third Helpings.In the 1970's, when Trillin was writing the "American Journal" feature for the New Yorker, he spent a great deal of time on the road, diligently questing after the best cooking in every city, town, and village he passed through. When approaching local people, his technique was simple, and simply brilliant: "Don't take me to the place you took your parents on their 25th wedding anniversary; take me to the place you went the night you came home after 14 months in Korea." With this kind of attitude, whether he is writing about taking his own multi-course picnic on a no-frills flight to Miami, describing the perils of post eating, indulging in the pleasures of pigging-out in Hong Kong, or giving us the definitive history of the origin of the Buffalo chicken wing, the results are marvelously funny and will be a very special treat for people who love eating and relish good prose.
Synopsis
Calvin Trillin is America's funniest food writer. He is passionate about cooking. Known to his fans as a "happy eater", he also is a highly respected journalist and a nibble humorist. It is his unique combination of talents that makes "The Tummy Trilogy" such a wonderfully entertaining collection. Abridged.
About the Author
CALVIN TRILLIN has been a staff writer for the New Yorker since 1963. He is the author of numerous books, including About Alice, Deadline Poet, Family Man, American Stories, Killings, Uncivil Liberties, and Remembering Denny, a New York Times bestseller. He lives in New York and eats heartily whenever he travels.