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Calvin Trillin Quotes

«The most remarkable thing about my mother is that for thirty years she served the family nothing but leftovers. The original meal has never been found.»
«I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.»
«Following the Jewish tradition, a dispenser of schmaltz (liquid chicken fat) is kept on the table to give the vampires heartburn if they get through the garlic defense.»
«The food in such places is so tasteless because the members associate spices and garlic with just the sort of people they're trying to keep out.»
Author: Calvin Trillin (Writer) | About: Food | Keywords: associate, garlic, keep out, spices, tasteless
«The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?»
«Following the Rumanian tradition, garlic is used in excess to keep the vampires away.»
«There is no question that Rumanian-Jewish food is heavy. One meal is equal in heaviness, I would guess, to eight or nine years of steady mung-bean eating.»
«When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.»
«Even today, well-brought-up English girls are taught by their mothers to boil all veggies for at least a month and a half, just in case one of the dinner guests turns up without his teeth.»
Author: Calvin Trillin (Writer) | About: Girls | Keywords: boil, guests, in case, just in case
«In modern America, anyone who attempts to write satirically about the events of the day finds it difficult to concoct a situation so bizarre that it may not actually come to pass while the article is still on the presses»

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