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

Feeding a Yen "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." Full description

About this title

Review:

"Calvin Trillin is to food writing what Chaplin was to film acting."
--Business Week

"Tasty morsels . . . will have the reader gnawing the book's cover for lack of the perfect bagel . . . or the succulent boudin."
--The Dallas Morning News

"One of the most brilliant humorists of our times . . . Trillin is guaranteed good reading."
--Charleston Post and Courier

"Trillin never loses track of the ultimate meaning of food--that it connects us to those we care about the most deeply."
--The New York Times Book Review

"Trillin is the guide on a magical mystery tour punctuated by eccentric characters made memorable by his deft touch."
--The Denver Post

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: 224