Mcallister, an American Pulitzer Prize winner and war correspondent, tells a story about family ties 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 to commemorate the author's mother who had just died and recall 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 and love for his mother, as well as her smile and voice, are gradually clear in the author's memory of her cooking.

Mcallister is a war correspondent from England. However, in this sweet sadness, there is no smoke or strong spirit. There is only one kind of sadness, one kind of grief for losing his mother, and the sweetness, softness and warmth he felt when he recalled his mother. That's a secret hidden in everyone's heart. The author uses three lines to connect the contents of this book: one is the memory of her dead mother, the other is the process of the author and his wife expecting 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 may be 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 in life, such as food, clothing, housing and transportation. A warm joke and a pleasant 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 ties, which will accompany them all their lives. That's the smell of mom and home. This is a memory that no one can take away, and it is also a family affection that can never be erased. Affection is in the smell of food, which hangs the appetite and hearts of every family member. "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 spiritual journey and found his feelings for his 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. The death of my mother made this strong man who went in and out in the rain of bullets knocked down at once. Only when the family was lost would he feel how important it was to himself. However, 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, they are also quite interesting and make 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 bean meat with deep feelings for soup delicious?

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