"Canadians are very well behaved, they don't throw their food."

Food

Create & Download Quote Image

Customize Design

Theme Color

Insight & Reflection

Words carry weight, and Calvin Trillin's insight into food is no exception. It serves as a gentle reminder that amidst the chaos of modern life, timeless wisdom still holds the power to guide our decisions and clarify our values.

About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Marshall Trillin is an American journalist, humorist, food writer, poet, memoirist and novelist. He is a winner of the Thurber Prize for American Humor (2012) and an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters (2008).

More quotes by Calvin Trillin →
Editorial Note: This quote is curated and fact-checked by the ShortQuote Editorial Team. Verified Literature Specialist.

More by Calvin Trillin

"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."

— Calvin Trillin
Read more →

"I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally."

— Calvin Trillin
Read more →

"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."

— Calvin Trillin
Read more →

More about Food

"I try and eat good. On the road, that's next to impossible. And we eat a lot of unhealthy things when we're in Texas - that's what you do there."

— Justin Townes Earle
Read more →

"We work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work to eat to get the strength to work."

— John Dos Passos
Read more →

"Accept what people offer. Drink their milkshakes. Take their love."

— Wally Lamb
Read more →

"The food here is terrible, and the portions are too small."

— Woody Allen
Read more →
View all Food quotes →