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Learning to Eat Everything

作　　者：Jeffrey Steingarten 

出　　处：《今天（双语时代）》2009年第2期163-166,共4页Today：Bilingual Time

摘　　要：“我真想揍那个厨师”，19世纪的旅行家埃得蒙多·德·亚米契斯写道。“我立即全然理解了为什么吃这种食物的种族必须得信仰另一个上帝，以及对人生持有一种根本不同于我们的观点……这些食物的味道像肥皂、蜡、润发油、软膏、染料、化妆品．总之什么都有．大多数都难以入口。”＂I wanted to fall upon the cook,＂ wrote Edmondo de Amicis, a 19th-century traveler.＂In an instant I understood perfectly how a race who ate such food must necessarily believe in another God and hold essentially different views of human life from our own...There was a suggestion of soap, wax, pomatum, of unguents, dyes, cosmetics; of everything, in short, most unsuited to enter a human mouth.＂

关 键 词：学会 亚米契斯 19世纪 旅行家 化妆品 食物 

分 类 号：G322.25[文化科学] G40-09