- Title: Eating with the Pilgrims and Other Pieces
- Author: Calvin Trillin
- Pages: 112
- Publisher (Publication Date): Penguin Books (April 1, 2011)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10, ISBN-13 or ASIN: 0241960843
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Acclaimed “New Yorker” journalist, novelist and poet, Calvin Trillin is also America’s funniest and best-loved writer about food. This selection of some of his wittiest articles sees him stalking a peripatetic Chinese chef, campaigning to have the national Thanksgiving dish changed to Spaghetti Carbonara and sampling the legendary Louisiana boudin sausage – to be consumed preferably ‘while leaning against a pickup’. Eschewing fancy restaurants in favour of street food and neighbourhood joints, Trillin’s writing is a hymn of praise to the Buffalo chicken wing, the deep-fried wonton, the New York bagel and the brilliant, inimitable melting-pot that is US cuisine.