题目内容
When I was a child,everyone I knew celebrated festivals in the same way: in the family home with all kinds of sweets and delicious vegetables made according to recipes guarded by a grandmother.Days,often weeks,were spent in cutting,chopping,boiling,frying and storing them to be shared with every neighbor and relative within reach.
My childhood was spent in Nainital,then a small,sleepy town high up in the Himalayan foothills and we lived actually on top of a hill. So I wonder,who makes those sweets and vegetables now?
I now package these memories as popular bedtime stories to tell my wide-eyed grandchildren. And they are bestsellers: I just finish one,and then they beg another. Since my grandchildren live abroad,additional information has to be provided to serve as cultural footnotes.
As I recycle my memories,I realize that what has also disappeared with the day-long kitchen work is the special flavor (XP?) of slow-cooked food. In the early 1960s,our food was often cooked overnight to be ready for the morning meal. This was also the secret of the melt-in-the-mouth Awadhi dum-pukht food cooked overnight.
If you tiy overnight cooking in a modem kitchen,thea/arw (火警的警铃) will frighten your neighbors out of their beds at night. I tried making pamí/?íiy (印度煎饼) for my granddaughter in a Los Angeles kitchen at night. Just as she was waiting for her next one,the fire alarm sounded so hard.
Somehow,our warmest memories are always those that are related to food. I have never forgotten the taste of my grandmother's wonderful dal(木豆) . Even today,when I am unable to sleep at night,I think of the taste of that delicious dal.
1. In the author* s hometown,sharing food .
A. was very rare
B. was a waste of time
C. was a festival custom
D. was ? children's game
2. The author's grandchildren think her childhood stories are.
A. boring B. interesting
C. frightening D. acceptable
3. The food in the author's childhood had a special flavor partly because
A. it used special vegetables
B. it was made in the kitchen
C. it was guarded by her mother
D. it was cooked for a long time
4. What happened while the author was making parathas for her granddaughter?
A. Her kitchen caught fire.
B. She troubled her neighbors,
C. Her neighbors offered to help.
D. Her granddaughter set off the alarm.
