Third Helpings

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Penguin Books, 1984 - Cooking - 184 pages

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Contents

Spaghetti Carbonara
1
An Attempt to Compile a Short History
14
Divining the Mysteries of the East
26
Copyright

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Third Helpings
Calvin Trillin
Snippet view - 1984
Third Helpings
Calvin Trillin
Snippet view - 1983

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About the author (1984)

Calvin Trillin attended public schools in Kansas City and went on to Yale University and graduated in 1957; he later served as a Fellow of the University. He was born on December 5, 1935. He worked as a reporter for Time magazine before joining the staff of The New Yorker in 1963. His reporting for The New Yorker on the racial integration of the University of Georgia was published in his first book, An Education in Georgia. Family, travel and food are also themes in Trillin's work. Three of his books American Fried; Alice, Let's Eat; and Third Helpings; were individually published and are also collected in the 1994 compendium The Tummy Trilogy. He has also written a collection of short stories Barnett Frummer Is An Unbloomed Flower (1969) and three comic novels, Runestruck (1977), Floater (1980), and Tepper Isn't Going Out (2001). Among his recent work, is Dogfight: The 2012 Presidential Campaign in Verse. He was awarded the Thurber Prize for American Humor for Quite Enough of Calvin Trillin: Forty Years of Funny Stuff, in 2012.

Bibliographic information

TitleThird Helpings
AuthorCalvin Trillin
PublisherPenguin Books, 1984
ISBN0140073140, 9780140073140
Length184 pages
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Fiction / General
Humor / General
  
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