The Tummy Trilogy: American Fried/Alice, Let's Eat/Third Helpings

In the 1970s, Calvin Trillin informed America that its most glorious food was not to be found at the pretentious restaurants he referred to generically as La Maison de la Casa House, Continental Cuisine. With three hilarious books over the next two decades--American Fried, Alice, Let's East, and Third Helpings-he established himself as, in Craig Claiborne's phrase, "the Walt Whitman of American eats," Now all three have been combined in what Trillian calls the Tummy Trilogy. SC, 386 pages.