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mcallister, an American Pulitzer Prize winner and war correspondent, told a story about family ties in his book Sweet Sorrow. The subtitle of this book is "Memories of Love, Family and Food", and the reason why I bought this book is the word food. After reading it, I realized that the contents of the delicious food were 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 the most was the delicious food cooked by her mother, which became a medium for the dead mother to communicate with him. His resentment towards his mother, his love for her, and her smile and voice are all gradually clear in the author's memory of her cooking.

mcallister is a war correspondent from England. However, in this Sweet Sorrow, there is no smell of smoke or strong spirit. There is only a kind of sadness, a kind of grief for the loss of his mother, and the sweetness, softness and warmth he felt when he recalled his mother. That is the secret lurking in every man's heart. The author strung together the contents of this book with three lines: one is the memory of her dead mother, the other is the process that the author and his wife expect to be pregnant and have children, and the other is that the author is looking for her mother's recipes 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 emotion not only has the connection that blood is thicker than water, but also has the same memory formed by long-term life.

and this same memory is made up of trivial things in life, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. A warm joke and a happy trip can leave a deep impression on every member of the family and will accompany them all their lives. 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 love. These are warm memories of family ties, which will accompany them for life. That's the smell of mother, and it's also the smell of home. It's a memory that no one can take away, and it's also a family affection that can never be erased. Affection is in the aroma of food, which holds the appetite of every family member and their hearts. "I like my mother's meal best", which contains many warmth and memories!

In the process of searching for her mother's recipes, the author completed her spiritual journey and recovered her feelings for her mother. His mother's later alcoholism and mental illness once caused great trouble to the author. The lonely life of my mother in her later years filled the author with guilt. Mother's death, so that this strong man in and out of the bullets, suddenly knocked down, only when the family lost, will feel how important it is to themselves. However, he refreshed his mother's image in the sense of taste, rebuilt his love for his mother, revived his attachment to 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 of the book 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, they are also quite interesting and make people's index fingers move. For example, his detailed description of bean stuffy meat, how his mother did it, and how he improved it, is really wonderful. The bean stuffy meat is already delicious. Isn't this bean stuffy meat that melts deep affection in the soup delicious?

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