Calvin Trillin

I don’t cook. I don’t know anything about food. I’ve never reviewed a restaurant…

I don’t think I’ve ever read a food piece or a food book…

We all know funny people who can’t get it down on the page – even funny…

Health food makes me sick…

The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic…

Canadians are very well behaved, they don’t throw their food…

I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild…

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher…

There’s always a source for humor…

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would…

I never eat in a restaurant that’s over a hundred feet off the ground and…

The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the…

If it’s inappropriate to write about, if there’s nothing funny about it, then it’s not…

When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the…

People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual…