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Eating with the Pilgrims and Other Pieces (Penguin Great Food)

Eating with the Pilgrims and Other Pieces (Penguin Great Food)

by Calvin Trillin (Author)

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    Paperback 2011

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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.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 112
 Publisher: Penguin
Published: 07 Apr 2011
ISBN 10: 0241951933
ISBN 13: 9780241951934

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