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Tales from The Tummy Trilogy

By: Calvin Trillin
Narrated by: Calvin Trillin
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 As a traveling man, Calvin Trillin, longtime staff writer for The New Yorker, has spent a lot of time sniffing the air for the whiff of authentic hickory-wood barbecue and evading invitations to pretentious restaurants he lumps as La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. His adventures "trying to find something decent to eat" have been recounted in three hilarious books: American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings - more recently issued in one volume as The Tummy Trilogy. Here, in seventeen entertaining selections that range from his efforts to write a definitive history of the Buffalo chicken wing to his attempts to lure his older daughter back from California by finding an irresistible bagel, the man Craig Claiborne called "the Walt Whitman of American eats" proves once again that he is among America's funniest food writers.©2000 Clavin Trillin (P)16 9; 2000 HighBridge Company Cooking Entertainment & Celebrities Food & Wine Gastronomy Travel Writing & Commentary Funny Witty

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"Marvelously funny and horrifyingly mouth-watering." (Rolling Stone)
"Trillin is to food writing what Chaplin was to film acting." (Business Week)
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Great fun, despite his abhorrence of the English. As a writer for the New Yorker, Trillin travelled through the world, eating where and whenever he could. And commenting on his experiences in this, a series of individual essays. With snatches of music between chapters, and a sardonic performance by the author/ narrator, this nicely written book is an easy and enjoyable read although I very much doubt that I would !like the Man himself even though his long suffering wife, Alice, must see something in him (other than his expanding girth).

"Dangerous Bagels."

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