Calvin Trillin's Nostalgia for a White Planet

by Rich SmithIn this issue of the New Yorker, Calvin Trillin feels overwhelmed by Chinese food trends in the U.S. and longs for the "simpler days of chow mein but no stress." The New Yorker
The food writer/poet/long-time contributor to the New Yorker, Calvin Trillin, has a poem in the April 4th issue of New Yorker called, "Have They Run Out of Provinces Yet?" The poem is a series of rhyming couplets wherein the speaker seems beguiled and overwhelmed by the apparent onslaught ("too many to name,"