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  • 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.
    - Calvin Trillin
  • 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.
    - Calvin Trillin
  • I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
    - Calvin Trillin
  • Health food makes me sick.
    - Calvin Trillin
  • 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.
    - Calvin Trillin
  • I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
    - Calvin Trillin
  • Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
    - Calvin Trillin
  • I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
    - Calvin Trillin