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December 24, 2008
Christmas In Qatar
This poem by Calvin Trillin doesn't have much to do with food -- although there is a reference to reindeer cacciatore. We just like to include rhyme from time to time to make the blog seem classy.Christmas In QatarVerse:The shopping starts, and every store's a zooI'm frantic, too: I haven't got a cl ... More >>
Dining
May 27, 1992
Three Little Pigs
This poem by Calvin Trillin doesn't have much to do with food -- although there is a reference to reindeer cacciatore. We just like to include rhyme from time to time to make the blog seem classy.Christmas In QatarVerse:The shopping starts, and every store's a zooI'm frantic, too: I haven't got a cl ... More >>
News
November 6, 2003
In Search of the Great Miami Novel
Surely there's more to local literature than crime and exile
Dining
August 20, 1998
When the Chips Are Down
Surely there's more to local literature than crime and exile
Blogs
August 7, 2009
Friday Food Funnies: Calvin Trillin On A Chinese Dinner In Hell
The Tummy Trilogy, the 1994 compilation of Calvin Trillin's three food books (American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings), contains enough funny -- and brilliant -- observations on eating to fill Friday Food Funnies for years. There is certainly no other food writer that can play on the sa ... More >>
Blogs
November 27, 2009
FFF: Calvin Trillin's Revised History of Thanksgiving
The following passages have been excerpted from a story in Third Helpings, by Calvin Trillin, which can also be found as part of Trillin's The Tummy Trilogy, (Farrar, Strauss and Giroux: New York, 1994): I have been campaigning to have the national Thanksgiving dish changed from turkey to spaghe ... More >>
Dining
August 7, 2003
Intellectual Peanuts
Power bagels with peanut butter, there's really nothing like them
Blogs
October 12, 2010
Hang Out with Ruth Reichl, Michael Ruhlman, and Jonathan Gold in Key West
Courtesy State Archives and Library of FloridaErnest Hemingway posing with sailfish in Key West.Key West is known for its funkiness, its natural beauty, and its lovely weather in winter. It's also been a popular spot for literary types over the decades, including Annie Dillard, Shel Silverstein, ... More >>
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October 26, 2010
Arlo Haskell and the Key West Literary Seminar Take On Food
Arlo HaskellArlo Haskell is a Key West native, a poet and, for the last three years, a member of the small staff responsible for putting on the annual Key West Literary Seminar.In January 2011 the annual event -- which started in 1983 and has a different theme each year -- will explore food in li ... More >>
News
November 17, 2011
William Kennedy, a Miami Book Fair standout
Arlo HaskellArlo Haskell is a Key West native, a poet and, for the last three years, a member of the small staff responsible for putting on the annual Key West Literary Seminar.In January 2011 the annual event -- which started in 1983 and has a different theme each year -- will explore food in li ... More >>
Blogs
November 17, 2011
Carmellini, Schwartz, Yes. Behr, Bittman, No. Five Cookbook Authors Not at the Miami Book Fair
I have come to praise the Miami Book Fair International, not to bury it. I mean seriously: Is there any other event of this size that runs so seamlessly and trouble-free year after year? Plus, if not for Mitchell Kaplan, a lot of people in Miami might still not know what a book is.All I'm saying is ... More >>