Calvin Trillin Quotes About Cooking

Quotes about: Cooking

• 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.

  Calvin Trillin

  Funny, Mothers Day, Mom

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

  Calvin Trillin

  Food, Feet, Cooking

  Calvin Trillin (1974). “American fried; adventures of a happy eater”

• It happens to be a matter of record that I was first in print with the discovery that the tastelessness of the food offered in American clubs varies in direct proportion to the exclusiveness of the club.

  Calvin Trillin

  Discovery, Cooking, Records

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

• 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.

  Calvin Trillin

  Father, Taken, Food

  Calvin Trillin (1984). “Third Helpings”, Viking Press

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