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Category: Calvin Trillin

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

Stand, Feet, Restaurant

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

Well, Throw, Very

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.

Wise, Preparation, Kitchen

I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.

Imagination, Answers, Math

There’s always a source for humor.

With humor, it’s so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.

Crazy, Think, You

If law school is so hard to get through how come there are so many lawyers?

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.

mothers, fathers

Health food makes me sick.

In the rather informal survey I have taken over the years on intensity of interest in food by profession, lawyers rank only a few trades below concert pianists….

food, gourmand, lawyers, pianists

Because a superior fried-chicken restaurant is often the institutional extension of a single chicken-obsessed woman, I realize that, like a good secondhand bookstore or a bad South American dictatorship, it is not easily passed down intact.

food, fried-chicken, politics, restaurants

Daddy, how come in Kansas City the bagels taste like just round bread?

food, humor, trillin