The legendary owner and chef of the Greenwich Village restaurant Shopsin's dishes food and philosophy in this collection of more than 120 recipes, including such perfect comfort foods as High School Hot Turkey Sandwiches, Cuban Bean Polenta Melt, and Cornmeal-Fried Green Tomatoes with Comeback Sauce, plus the best soups, egg dishes, and hamburgers.
In the 1950s, Denny Hanson was the "golden boy", a clean-cut, Rhodes Scholar whose bright future and million-dollar smile made him the subject of a Life magazine feature. The bestselling author of Uncivil Liberties chronicles this life that once held limitless possibilities, but ended tragically.
In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed us that the most glorious food in an American city was not to be found at the pretentious rooftop restaurant he called La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. With three hilarious books, he established himself as "our funniest food writer" and, in Craig Claiborne's phrase, "the Walt Whitman of ...
Calvin Trillin's comic novel--a small valentine to New York City--is about a man named Murray Tepper, a Manhattanite who has mastered the intricacies of finding a parking place in the city. (Trillin calls it "the first parking novel.") Once Murray gets a spot, he has no intention of leaving it: he parks, then sits in his car. The consequences of ...
There's bad news these days for Calvin Trillin fans--he's about to skip town and he's taking Alice and the girls with him. The good news--you're going too.
In Calvin Trillin's antic tales of family life, she was portrayed as the wife who had "a weird predilection for limiting our family to three meals a day" and the mother who thought that if you didn't go to every performance of your child's school play, "the county would come and take the child." Now, five years after her death, her husband offers ...
Originally published under the title "My American Century," this anthology collects the best interviews from eight of Terkel's classic oral histories together with his magnificent introductions to each work.
Returning to the form (and forum) that made bestsellers of "Obliviously On He Sails" and "A Heckuva Job," the putative Bard of the Bush presidency recreates in verse all the lowlights of this year's endless campaign slog.
Across time zones and cultures, and often with his wife, Alice, at his side, Trillin shares his triumphs in the art of culinary discovery, including Dungeness crabs in California, barbecued mutton in Kentucky, potato latkes in London, and a $33 picnic on a no-frills flight to Miami.
"The man was stubborn", writes Calvin Trillin - the second most stubborn member of the Trillin family - to begin his fond, wry, and affecting memoir of his father. Abe Trillin had the western Missouri accent of someone who had grown up in St. Joseph and the dreams of America of someone who had been born is Russia. In Kansas City, he was a grocer, ...
Calvin Trillin's newest collection of pieces provides a sparkling commentary on our national life, public, and private, over the past three years, as seen through the eyes of a writer whose view of life is inevitably fresh, original, provocative, inspiring--and funny.
In January 1961, following eighteen months of litigation that culminated in a federal court order, Hamilton Holmes and Charlayne Hunter became the first black students to enter the University of Georgia. Calvin Trillin, then a reporter for "Time Magazine," attended the court fight that led to the admission of Holmes and Hunter and covered their ...
David Page and Barbara Shinn are the proprietors and chefs at the New York City restaurant called Home. Based on their belief that American cooking should use local, seasonal products, these 250 recipes include Grilled Blue Cheese and Apple Sandwiches, Shrimp and Hominy Stew, Spring Mushroom and Sweet Pea Hash, Sunflower Seed Pesto, and Apricot ...
Collecting his weekly poems in the Nation magazine, Calvin Trillin passes merciless judgment on the Bush administration, condemning the president and his advisers for everything from lying about the war in Iraq to misusing the English language. But, as always, no matter how great his outrage, Trillin is never without his wry sense of humor.
Humorist and food nut Calvin Trillin adds to his distinguished body of food writing with this collection of 14 essays that tackle (and ingest) not only the close to home but such farflung products as authentic Louisiana boudin, a real Kansas City barbecue, and the posole of Santa Fe. A New York Times Notable Book for 2003.
Calvin Trillin has selected his favorite columns for inclusion in this volume on subjects such as China's claim to have invented golf, the prospect of the Queen being audited, dog seat belts, and the practice of some businesses to donate campaign contributions to BOTH political parties.
No writer captured the tragic absurdity of late-twentieth-century America better than John Gregory Dunne. For over forty years, he cast an unsparing eye on contemporary America, never flinching from the unpleasant truths he saw around him. Whether novels, screenplays, or nonfiction, his work was marked with a droll wit and a pointed cynicism ...
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