Alice, Let's Eat: Further Adventures of a Happy Eater

Warning: Do not read this book on an empty stomach.Calvin Trillin invites you into his world of gastronomy and reminds you how much in love, he is with his wife, Alice.It is a win/win situation. Through Trillin's eyes (and stomach) you find your way through wild game church suppersand haute cuisine meals,prepared by Paul Bocuse. The journey is joyful, as every adventure is tempered with thecareful consternation and advice of Alice.Ever mindful of Trillin's tendency towards "excess", Alice's voice reminds us to stop and smell the roses, see thesights, and perhaps, eat a vegetable along the way.

Calvin Trillen's writing is so smart and witty, and such a lighthearted romp through his excursions in eating. I don't think you would have to be a "foodie" to enjoy this book.

...That Trillin actually ate all the stuff he claims in this book to have partaken of! But the point is that he enjoyed it, and I enjoyed his telling about it!

It is an amusing day read if you are a foody and can relate to traveling for your palate vs the sites....

I was really excited to read this book from all the great reviews I had read but did not enjoy it. I guess what I didn't like was his writing style which I found a bit stuffy and formal and the stories he talked about weren't really all that interesting. I got half way through and thought, "Forget it" and put it away, not likely to go back.

A "hoot" of a read...... Trillin is the funniest writer on the subject of "eating well" ..... besides awesome smart..... some of the repartee with his "better half" are gems worthy of posting on the fridge.

Trillin is an excellent writer, but not in this book. It is boring at best and as soggy as a dishcloth. Its attempts at being funny fail and it is fairly boring to read about stuffing yourself in a variety of hangouts that do not even deserve the name restaurant. If you want to have fun reading about eating too much, try the Czech writer Bohumil Hrabal. Meanwhile, Trillin ought to know which books to keep on the market. Not this one.

Calvin Trillin never ceases to amaze me -- a masterful storyteller indeed.

Alice, Let's Eat "The primary requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite." A. J. Liebling Between Meals: An Appetite for ParisCalvin Trillin, author of Alice, Let's Eat, was a writer clearly convinced of the wisdom of Liebling's dictum. Alice, Let's Eat, subtitled Further Adventures of A Happy Eater, recounts Trillins love of food, and the lengths, generally humorous, that he would go to, to obtain great food.Trillin falls into a line of American humorists that runs from Twain,Rogers,and Liebling himself, through to such more recent writers as Barry and Sedaris. To Calvin Trillin, food is something to be enjoyed. Food is a unifying principle to organize one's life around, This is a man who developed a system of getting deliveries of his favourite foods to New York, from friends traveling to places as far afield as Kansas City, New Orleans and other places in between.These habits are ones he indulgences in, frequently to the display of his wife Alice. Vacations meant to be spent studying historic architecture become trips spent visiting obscure restaurants. Not to mention the Christmas and birthday present of the romantic kitchen utensil variety.Along the way, details of wondrous, and not so wondrous meals are accompanied by descriptions of wondrous characters such as Fats Goldberg, the perpetually slim pizza baron and developer of bad business ideas. Or Jeffrey Jowell, professor of law, gentleman farmer and supposed connoisseur of chicken eggs. Trillin has a diverse food palate, and a sense of humour to match.While there is definitely a timeless quality to Trillin's writing, there is also a certain sense of datedness to it. This is perhaps natural given that some of the things that he writes about, such as vegetarian cooking have changed and diversified greatly in the last 35 years. Some of it is also undoubtedly due to the way cultural mores and the roles of men and women have changed in the same period. Still, Trillin brings a welcome touch of levity to the subject of food, which has all too often been a topic for fighting rather than laughing in recent years.Anytime you find yourself taking your thoughts about food a little too seriously, pick up Calvin Trillin's, Alice Let's Eat, and a pour a little laughter over your meal. You'll enjoy your meal more, and if you're worried about such things, it's entirely, fat, sugar, gluten, and calorie free."The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose."Garrison Keillor Alice, Let's Eat

I will read anything this wonderful dry man has written. I remember his appearances on the Johnny Carson show and his writing is just as good as his appearances.