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Tasty trips: delicious reads for you
From a Nigerian cook’s memoir（实录）to a classic novel of Mexican moles and magic, these books take you on unforgettable kitchen journeys.
Bon Appetit: Travels Through France with Knife, Fork and Corkscrew (2001), by Peter Mayle. After a childhood spent tolerating British cooking, Mayle fell in love with France’s cooking culture. It was a lifelong journey he kindly and knowledgably documented in this mouthwatering memoir, the most food-focused of his many books.
Dirt (2020), by Bill Buford. After befriending the always great French chef Michel Richard, the Italophile-turned-Francophile writer winds up at a cooking school in Lyon studying the country’s secrets for cooking delicious foods. Finally, he walks away having learned the taste of good food. That comes from a place, as it has for thousands of years.
The Spice Necklace: A Food-Lover’s Caribbean Adventure (2010), by Anne Vanderhoof. As a brave couple pilot their sailboat, the Receta (Spanish for recipe), around the Caribbean, they dig into local delicacies along the way. The lively memoir-cookbook will make you want to head to the tropics—or at least your kitchen—to try frozen pumpkin soup or delicious coconut-custard tarts（蛋挞）.
Like Water for Chocolate (1989), by Laura Esquivel. Set in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Mexico, this novel combines magical realism with food sensualism（感官刺激性）to tell the tragicomic（悲喜剧的）story of Tita De La Garza, a farmer’s daughter with mad kitchen skills—but no luck at love. Each chapter starts with a traditional recipe (oxtail soup, turkey molé) tied to the storyline.
21．What can we learn from Bon Appetit?
A．Mayle was fond of cooking at an early age.
B．Mayle finally enjoyed France’s cooking culture.
C．Mayle spent his whole life writing an autobiography.
D．Mayle himself could cook the most mouthwatering food.
22．If you want to know the story behind a traditional recipe, you will read ______.
A．Dirt B．Bon Appetit
C．The Spice Necklace D．Like Water for Chocolate
23．Who are the books intended for?
A．Food lovers. B．Cook trainers.
C．Book collectors. D．Kitchen adventurers.
