Eating with the Pilgrims and Other Pieces - Softcover

Calvin Trillin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0241951933 ISBN 13: 9780241951934

Publisher: Penguin Books, 2011

Synopsis

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.

About this title

About the Author

Calvin Trillin is an American journalist, humorist and novelist. Born in Missouri, he joined The New Yorker 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."

Review

Calvin Trillin is to food writing what Chaplin was to film acting * Business Week * Marvelously funny and horrifyingly mouth-watering * Rolling Stone *

Edition details

• Publisher: Penguin Books
• Publication date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241951933
• ISBN 13: 9780241951934
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 112