Book description
Acclaimed
New Yorker
journalist, novelist and poet, Calvin Trillin is also America's
funniest and best-loved writer about food. This selection of some of his
wittiest articles sees him stalking a peripatetic Chinese chef,
campaigning to have the national Thanksgiving dish changed to Spaghetti
Carbonara and sampling the legendary Louisiana boudin sausage - to be
consumed preferably 'while leaning against a pickup'. Eschewing fancy
restaurants in favour of street food and neighbourhood joints, Trillin's
writing is a hymn of praise to the Buffalo chicken wing, the deep-fried
wonton, the New York bagel and the brilliant, inimitable melting-pot
that is US cuisine. Calvin Trillin
is an American journalist, humorist and novelist. Born in Missouri, he
joined The New Yorke
r in 1963. His reporting there has concentrated on America, between the
coasts. For fifteen years, he produced an article from somewhere in the
country every three weeks, on subjects that ranged from the murder of a
farmer's wife in Iowa to the author's effort to write the definitive
history of a Louisiana restaurant called Didee's "or to eat an
awful lot of baked duck and dirty rice trying."
