Bittersweet

Matt McAllester is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for Newsday before returning to London, where he now lives with his wife, Pernilla. Winner of a number of other awards, including the Osborn Elliott Award for Excellence for his coverage of Nepal in 2006 and several overseas Press Club citations for his international reporting, he is currently a contributing editor at Details.

出版者:The Dial Press

作者:Matt McAllester

页数:224

出版时间:2009-4-14

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780385342186

图书标签:Bittersweet英语英文原版樱桃推荐小说回忆录love2016

In this eloquent tribute, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist McAllester (Blinded by the Sunlight: Surviving Abu Ghraib and Saddam's Iraq) takes a break from global conflict to address a much more intimate struggle, his late mother's descent into mental illness. After learning of her death, McAllester pores through his mother's old collection of cookbooks in an attempt to reconnect with the loving woman he remembers. Using the wise work of British celebrity chef Elizabeth David, his mother's true north in all things culinary, McAllester masters cassoulet, lobster, elaborate omelets, and steak with bordelaise sauce, gaining not only in confidence and ability but in understanding and acceptance. The process involves McAllester's touching descriptions of his mother's dishes and the memories they elicit: strawberry ice cream, homemade bread and a stolen taste of fresh parsley all provoke fond stories of his mother in her prime. As he tries to makes sense of his mother's declining years, visiting past residences and even requesting her medical files, McAllester loses some of his enthusiasm for cooking, but brings his mother's complicated, troubled soul into focus. With this memoir, McAllester makes a fine, food-centric testament to the redemptive power of grief and acceptance.

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现居伦敦的马特·麦卡利斯特（Matt McAllester）曾为一家美国报纸担任了十几年的海外记者，报道过多次国际战争冲突，曾与同事一起获得1997年普利策奖的突发新闻报道奖，他自己出版过关于科索沃战争、伊拉克战争的两本著作。2005年5月，他利用工作间隙去伦敦看望了母亲，两天后...

现居伦敦的马特·麦卡利斯特（Matt McAllester）曾为一家美国报纸担任了十几年的海外记者，报道过多次国际战争冲突，曾与同事一起获得1997年普利策奖的突发新闻报道奖，他自己出版过关于科索沃战争、伊拉克战争的两本著作。2005年5月，他利用工作间隙去伦敦看望了母亲，两天后...

现居伦敦的马特·麦卡利斯特（Matt McAllester）曾为一家美国报纸担任了十几年的海外记者，报道过多次国际战争冲突，曾与同事一起获得1997年普利策奖的突发新闻报道奖，他自己出版过关于科索沃战争、伊拉克战争的两本著作。2005年5月，他利用工作间隙去伦敦看望了母亲，两天后...

现居伦敦的马特·麦卡利斯特（Matt McAllester）曾为一家美国报纸担任了十几年的海外记者，报道过多次国际战争冲突，曾与同事一起获得1997年普利策奖的突发新闻报道奖，他自己出版过关于科索沃战争、伊拉克战争的两本著作。2005年5月，他利用工作间隙去伦敦看望了母亲，两天后...

现居伦敦的马特·麦卡利斯特（Matt McAllester）曾为一家美国报纸担任了十几年的海外记者，报道过多次国际战争冲突，曾与同事一起获得1997年普利策奖的突发新闻报道奖，他自己出版过关于科索沃战争、伊拉克战争的两本著作。2005年5月，他利用工作间隙去伦敦看望了母亲，两天后...

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