Calvin Trillin Leaves Them Hungry for More

New Yorker writer served up a full plate of one-liners during his latest Festival food trek.

ComeHungryNewYorkerPart of the fun of Bloomberg Business reporter Chris Rovzar’s first-person account of The New Yorker Festival Oct. 4 culinary walking tour led by Calvin Trillin is that it includes some of the 79-year-old guide’s running commentary.

“If matzo really tasted like this, the Jews would have never left Egypt,” Trillin said early on at Blue Ribbon Bakery. Later, at Di Palo’s, The New Yorker vet reminded, “A fridge to mozzarella is like a wooden cross to a vampire.”

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