Calvin Trillin

                   

Calvin Trillin

time.com
yesterday 1 related
        

Calvin Trillin is part of that small, infuriating group of people who can write well about anything. During his half-century as a novelist, humorist and journalist — his first full-time job was covering issues of race at TIME's...

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Holiday gifts for your favorite wanderer

chicagotribune.com
30-Nov-2008
        

The holidays are creeping up on us. Time to think about what to give your favorite traveler. Considering the cost of flying these days, who wouldn't love a free airline ticket? But let's get real. The sorry state of the stock...

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Pig: It's what's for dinner in northwestern Spain

iht.com
26-Nov-2008
        

In the last couple of years the pile of books about pork — let's call the genre Pig Lit — has grown tall enough that it's threatening to topple over and hurt someone. In his memoir "Heat," Bill Buford sampled a slice of Mario...

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There's reason in Trillin's rhymes from 'Decider'

usatoday.com
25-Nov-2008
        

Campaigner: Calvin Trillin's Deciding the Next Decider takes aim at the recent presidential election. By Bob Minzesheimer, USA TODAY NEW YORK — Calvin Trillin, who calls himself a "deadline poet," lived up to his description in...

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Book reviews: 'Deciding the Next Decider' and 'The Private Patient'

iht.com
24-Nov-2008
        

Random House. $14. There once was a poet named Bud Trillin, Who cast George Bush as his villain. The prez was famous for gaffes, Which Trillin played for some laughs. In our nation's hard times, Trillin sought funny lines....

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Delicious Reading

edibletulip.typepad.com
20-Nov-2008
        

No, it's not the latest Newsweek (with Obama on the cover) dishing all the behind the campaign scenes gossip, and detailed backstabbing info on the "Wasilla Hillbillies" that I find myself embarrassingly curious about despite...

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Thanksgiving Foods We Love to Hate

seriouseats.com
20-Nov-2008
        

Thanksgiving is a fascinating holiday. We run around combining canned things with boxed things with jarred things. While the meal is arguably the tastiest of the year, some familiar ingredients are strange. A good strange. A...

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newyorker.com: At Snow’s, the pit master, Tootsie Tomanetz, prepares her meat hours before the place opens. Photographs by Brian Finke. newyorker.com

Quality Update: Trillin on BBQ

execupundit.com
19-Nov-2008 2 related
        

Writing in The New Yorker, Calvin Trillin looks at the complexities of naming the best Texas BBQ place in the world. An excerpt:I had never heard of Snow’s. That surprised me. Although I grew up in Kansas City, which has a...

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When Pork Barrel Met Pork Barbecue

usnews.com
19-Nov-2008
        

Like Calvin Trillin, I am a man who takes my barbecue seriously. The best sauce I ever found was at a place called The Rib, in my adopted hometown of Rockville, Maryland. If, in the course of eating at the Dixie Pig, you had to...

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Foul-mouthed cook pushes his way onto shelves

thehour.com
18-Nov-2008
        

Associated Press NEW YORK -- Since the 1970s, Shopsin has become a cult hero in a food obsessed city by dishing out quirky up-market diner food with a side of salty insults. His Shopsin's General Store, in one venue or another,...

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