Mcallister, a Pulitzer Prize winner and war correspondent in the United States, tells a story about affection in his book Sweet Sorrow. The subtitle of this book is Memories of Love, Family and Food. The reason why I bought this book is the word food. After reading it, I realized that the content of the food was not much, but more about remembering the author's mother who had just died and remembering everything when she was alive. Of course, what impressed the author most was the delicious food cooked by her mother, which became the medium for her dead mother to communicate with him. His resentment, love, smile and voice towards his mother are gradually clear in the author's memory of his mother's cooking.

Mcallister is a war correspondent from England. However, in this sweet sadness, there is no smell of smoke and no strong spirit. There is only a kind of sadness, a kind of grief for the loss of mother, a kind of sweetness, softness and warmth when recalling mother. This is a secret lurking in everyone's heart. The author uses three lines to string together the contents of this book: one is the memory of her dead mother, the other is the process that the author and his wife expect to get pregnant and have children, and the other is that the author is looking for her mother's cookbook and wants to relive her delicious food. These three lines finally focus on two words: family, which is probably the most unprofitable and warmest emotion in the world. This kind of emotion not only has the connection that blood is thicker than water, but also has the same memory formed by long-term common life.

And this same memory is composed of trivial things such as food, clothing, housing and transportation in life. A warm joke and a happy trip can leave a deep impression on every member of the family and will accompany them for life. Eating is the most frequent, extensive and secret thing in this family. Every family has its own eating habits, its own heart, its mother's meticulous care and its own love. These are warm memories of family, which will accompany them all their lives. That's the smell of mom and home. It is a memory that no one can take away, and it is also a family affection that can never be erased. Affection in the aroma of food, containing each family's appetite, containing their hearts. "I like mom's cooking best", which contains a lot of warmth and memories!

In the process of searching for mother's recipes, the author completed his own mental journey and found his feelings for his mother. His mother's later alcoholism and mental illness once caused great trouble to the author. Mother's lonely life in her later years filled the author with guilt. Mother's death, so that the strong man in and out of bullets, suddenly knocked down, only when the family lost, will feel how important they are. But he refreshed his mother's image in taste, rebuilt his love for his mother, restored his attachment to his family and rebuilt his confidence in life. Here, food has become the core of life and the bond of family.

Mcallister is not only an expert in love writing, but also an expert in cooking. Unfortunately, there is not much about food in the book. Although there is a hint on the back cover that there are exquisite recipes in the book, there are actually only a few recipes. However, among the few delicious foods written by the author, it is also quite interesting and makes people's index fingers move. For example, his detailed description of bean stuffy meat, how his mother made it, and how he improved it, is really wonderful. Bean stuffed meat is already delicious. Isn't this kind of bean stuffy meat that melts deep feeling in soup delicious?

What we chew carefully is often not the delicious food, but the soft affection.