Alice, Let's Eat- Further Adventures of a Happy Eater

✍ Scribed by Trillin, Calvin

• Book ID: 107169102
• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: en-US
• Weight: 219 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

BONUS: This edition contains an excerpt from Calvin Trillin's Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin.

"Trillin is our funniest food writer. He writes with charm, freedom, and a rare respect for language."
--New York magazine

In this delightful and delicious book, Calvin Trillin, guided by an insatiable appetite, embarks on a hilarious odyssey in search of "something decent to eat." 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, blaff d'oursins in Martinique, and a $33 picnic on a no-frills flight to Miami. His eating companions include Fats Goldberg, the New York pizza baron and reformed blimp; William Edgett Smith, the man with the Naughahyde palate; and his six-year-old daughter, Sarah, who refuses to enter a Chinese restaurant unless she is carrying a...