Feeding a yen: savoring local specialties, from Kansas City to Cuzco

210 Pages·2003·0.494 MB·English

by  Trillin, Calvin

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FEEDING A YEN
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RANDOM HOUSE • NEW YORK
F E E D I N G A YE N
S
AVORING LOCAL
SPECIALTIES,
FROM KANSAS CITY
TO CUZCO
C A LV I N TR I L L I N
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Trillin, Calvin.
Feeding a yen : savoring local specialties, from Kansas City to
Cuzco / Calvin Trillin.
p. cm.
e-ISBN 1-58836-297-3
1. Cookery, American. 2. Trillin, Calvin. I. Title.
TX715.T775 2003
641.5973—dc21 2002037055
Parts ofthis book appeared originally, in different form,
in The New Yorker, Gourmet,and other magazines.
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For more than thirty-five years, my companion
at the table was my wife, Alice.
Although I did once describe Alice as having
“a weird predilection for limiting our family
to three meals a day,” her knowledge and enjoyment
of food had a lot to do with the pleasure I took
in writing about eating. Partway through this book’s
adventures, which took place over several years,
her name no longer appears.
She died in September 2001. I know she would have
expected this dedication to be shared with our
first grandchild, Isabelle Alice Trillin-Lee, who,
as it happens, has already
shown signs of being a good eater.