Calvin Trillin Quotes About Food
“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.”
“Health food makes me sick.”
“The best restaurants in the world are, of course, in Kansas City.”
“There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.”
“Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.”
“The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yogurt.”
“Marriage is not merely sharing the fettucini, but sharing the burden of finding the fettucini restaurant in the first place.”
“I don’t care where I sit, as long as I get fed.”
“When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.”
“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.”
