Zitat des Tages von 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.
Being on a book tour is a lot easier than reporting.
What campaigns are for is weeding out the people who, for one way or another, weren't making it for the long haul.
I never eat in a restaurant that's over a hundred feet off the ground and won't stand still.
Health food makes me sick.
I don't think I've ever read a food piece or a food book.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
As far as I'm concerned, 'whom' is a word that was invented to make everyone sound like a butler.
The shelf life of the average trade book is somewhere between milk and yogurt.
Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food.
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.
The question about those aromatic advertisements that perfume companies are having stitched into magazines these days is this: under the freedoms guaranteed by the First Amendment, is smelling up the place a constitutionally protected form of expression?
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.
I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
Getting a tattoo would probably make me cry.
People, not just reporters, are more interested in politics than in government, so the actual issues wouldn't be something that interested them.
I don't cook. I don't know anything about food. I've never reviewed a restaurant.
If it's inappropriate to write about, if there's nothing funny about it, then it's not funny.
With humor, it's so subjective that trying to think of what the ideal reader would think would drive you crazy.