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The Fall 2020 Cookbooks Worth Your Time (and Money)
Be My Guest
From Priya Basil, this book is a self-reflection on how food and the act of serving it are used to express love and support. Basil reflects on some of her earliest memories of food and how it affected her upbringing and relationship with her parents. Now a parent herself, she centers food in her book's exploration of that change of identity.
East
From Guardian columnist Meera Sodha comes a cookbook centered on vegetables. The book features recipes that cover a variety of Asian cuisines. Sodha showcases the diversity of vegetarian cooking with dishes like eggplant larb mushroom bao, Singapore noodles and so much more.
I Cook in Color
A follow-up from her first cookbook My Two Souths, Asha Gomez focuses on the rainbow of vegetables to create desserts and cross-cultural dishes that associate cooking traditions of her mother's Keralite kitchen and Gomez's travel experiences.
Time to Eat
If you're a fan of The Great British Baking Show and Nadiya Hussain's Netflix series, you'll be just as excited for the American release of this book of time-saving tips for home cooks on a budget. It's a book to go to for inspiration that doesn't involve countless hours of sweating over a hot stove.
1. What can we learn about the author of Be My Guest?
A. She had a bad relationship with her parents.
B. She began to cook food in her early childhood.
C. She considers food a means of expressing affection.
D. She explores in the book how to be a grandparent.
2. What do the East and I Cook in Color have in common?
A. They offer recipes about Asian cuisines.
B. They center on cooking vegetables.
C. They are the author's first cookbooks.
D. They are based on the author's travel experiences.
3. Which book can you refer to if you just have limited time for cooking?
A. Be My Guest.
B. East.
C. I Cook in Color.
D. Time to Eat.
【答案】1. C 2. B 3. D
【解析】
【分析】本文是一篇应用文。文章介绍了几个值得你花时间或金钱的2020秋季食谱。
【1题详解】
细节理解题。根据Be My Guest部分中的“From Priya Basil, this book is a self-reflection on how food and the act of serving it are used to express love and support.(这本书由Priya Basil撰写，是一本关于如何用食物和上菜的行为来表达爱和支持的自我反思)”可知，Be My Guest的作者认为食物可用来表达爱。故选C。
【2题详解】
细节理解题。根据East部分中的“From Guardian columnist Meera Sodha comes a cookbook centered on vegetables.(《卫报》专栏作家米拉·索达出版了一本以蔬菜为中心的食谱)和I Cook in Color部分中的“A follow-up from her first cookbook My Two Souths, Asha Gomez focuses on the rainbow of vegetables to create desserts and cross-cultural dishes that associate cooking traditions of her mother's Keralite kitchen and Gomez's travel experiences.(继她的第一本烹饪书《我的两个南方》之后，Asha Gomez专注于用彩虹般的蔬菜创造甜点和跨文化菜肴，将她母亲的Keralite厨房烹饪传统和Gomez的旅行经历联系起来)”可知，East和I Cook in Color均是以蔬菜为中心的食谱。故选B。
3题详解】
细节理解题。根据Time to Eat部分中的“you'll be just as excited for the American release of this book of time-saving tips for home cooks on a budget. It’s a book to go to for inspiration that doesn't involve countless hours of sweating over a hot stove.(你会同样兴奋地看到这本为家庭烹饪节省时间的小窍门的书在美国的发行。这是一本可以找到灵感的书，它不需要你在火炉边无数个小时的出汗)”可知，Time to Eat提供了省时的家庭烹饪技巧，适合做饭时间有限的人参考。故选D。
