Feeding a Yen: Savoring Local Specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco - Softcover

Trillin, Calvin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0375759964 ISBN 13: 9780375759963

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2004

Synopsis

Calvin Trillin has never been a champion of the “continental cuisine” palaces he used to refer to as La Maison de la Casa House. What he treasures is the superb local specialty. And he will go anywhere to find one. As it happens, some of his favorite dishes can be found only in their place of origin. Join Trillin on his charming, funny culinary adventures as he samples fried marlin in Barbados and the barbecue of his boyhood in Kansas City. Travel alongside as he hunts for the authentic fish taco, and participates in a “boudin blitzkrieg” in the part of Louisiana where people are accustomed to buying these spicy sausages and polishing them off in the parking lot. (“Cajun boudin not only doesn’t get outside the state, it usually doesn’t even get home.”) In New York, Trillin even tries to use a glorious local specialty, the bagel, to lure his daughters back from California. Feeding a Yen is a delightful reminder of why New York magazine called Calvin Trillin “our funniest food writer.”

About this title

From the Back Cover:

“Calvin Trillin is to food writing what Chaplin was to film acting.” —Business Week

Praise for Tepper Isn’t Going Out

“Tepper Isn’t Going Out is good for smiles, guffaws, and sometimes laughter that brings tears.” —The Boston Globe

Praise for Calvin Trillin’s books on eating

“Marvelously funny and horrifyingly mouth-watering." —Rolling Stone

“You literally laugh out loud.” —Chicago Tribune

“Under cover of a mania for dim sum, spaghetti carbonara, and pit barbecue, he is actually a superlative prose stylist, an inimitable humorist, and an absolutely first-rate people writer.” —The Washington Post Book World

About the Author:

CALVIN TRILLIN has been called “perhaps the finest reporter in America,” and “a classic American humorist.”

A onetime writer for Time, The New Yorker and a current contributor to The Nation, he is the author of several collections of essays and three comic novels, including the national bestseller Tepper Isn’t Going Out. He has also written three previous books on eating, American Fried, Alice, Let's Eat and Third Helpings, and the acclaimed memoirs, Messages from My Father, a New York Times best seller, and Family Man. His next book will be "Obliviously On He Sails," a collection of satirical verse about the George W, Bush presidency.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0375759964
• ISBN 13: 9780375759963
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 216