Calvin Trillin, The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried/Alice, Let's Eat/Third Helpings (Farrar Straus & Giroux 1994; Noonday Press 1994) Three deadpan books tracing the cross-continent gastronomic journeys of America's funniest food writer (and "Walt Whitman of American eats") as he sampled all manners of native cuisine. "[Don't take me to the] place you took your parents on their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary," he writes, "[but] the place you went the night you came home after fourteen months in Korea." MORE: Boston Phoenix book review FEED.com book review/essay Amazon |
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