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Calvin Trillin is an American journalist known for his humorous and satirical writing style. Born on December 5, 1935, he has had a career that spans various fields, including literature, commentary, and news reporting.

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Famous Calvin Trillin Quotes

“Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact.”

Politics Food Restaurants Fried Chicken

Author:Calvin Trillin

“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.”

Might Father Given Sides Born Taken Streets Food Lessons Cooking Lips Deny East Torture Fancy Restaurants Touched Culinary Italian Captains Joints Manhattan Sauce Tomatoes Waiter East Side Capri

Book:Third Helpings

Source: Third Helpings

“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.”

World Long Cities Restaurants Arthur Kansas Barbecue Kansas City

Book:American fried; adventures of a happy eater

Source: American fried; adventures of a happy eater

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

Stills Feet Food Hundred Cooking Restaurants Culinary Metamorphosis Feet Off The Ground

Book:American fried; adventures of a happy eater

Source: American fried; adventures of a happy eater

“Anybody who doesn't think that the best hamburger place in teh world is in his home town is a sissy.”

Thinking World Home Towns Restaurants Hamburgers Sissy Home Town

Author:Calvin Trillin

“Avoid restaurants with names that are improbable descriptions, such as the Purple Goose, the Blue Kangaroo or the Quilted Orangutan.”

Names Blue Restaurants Description Purple Geese Improbable Kangaroos Orangutans

Author:Calvin Trillin

“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.”

Effects Favors Immigration Restaurants

Author:Calvin Trillin

“Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.”

Firsts Findings Burden Restaurants

Author:Calvin Trillin

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

Knows Cooks Restaurants

Author:Calvin Trillin

About the Author

Born: December 5, 1935
Known for: Journalist
Quotes: 103

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Third HelpingsRelated source material

American fried; adventures of a happy eaterRelated source material

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Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy EaterRelated source material

If you can't say something niceRelated source material

Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny StuffRelated source material

Enough's Enough: And Other Rules of LifeRelated source material

Deadline Poet: My Life As a DoggerelistRelated source material

Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to CuzcoRelated source material

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