Calvin Trillin Quotes

"The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out."
- Calvin Trillin
(Related: Food, People, Trying)

"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."
- Calvin Trillin
(Related: Food, Policy, Kitchen, Preparation, Saying, Visit)

"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."
- Calvin Trillin
(Related: Family, Mother, Nothing, Remarkable, Years)

"The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt."
- Calvin Trillin
(Related: Life, Trade)

"I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still."
- Calvin Trillin
(Related: Feet)

"As far as I'm concerned, "whom" is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler."
- Calvin Trillin
(Related: Sound, Word)

"Health food makes me sick."
- Calvin Trillin
(Related: Food, Health)

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."
- Calvin Trillin
(Related: Answers)