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Secrets of the Tsil Cafe

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最低价：￥27.30

定价：￥239.50

作者：Thomas Fox Averill 著

出版社：Blue Hen

出版时间：2001-07-09

I S B N：9780399147555

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... a flavorful concoction of a story. -- Lawrence Journal-World... a spicy coming-of-age story combined with mouth-watering recipes for New World cuisine. -- Topeka Capital-Journal...delicious, fully drawn. -- St. Louis Post-Dispatch...tantalizing recipes...A lovingly written coming-of-age gem. -- Library JournalA tour de force of the palette. -- Wichita EagleAverill...blends savory, but spicy recipes into this novel of a hot-blooded family with two battling kitchens. -- BookpageHot stuff: it is completely satisfying food fiction. -- Calgary Herald[a] voluptuous novel....The tale is full of recipes, some on the very edge of bizarre but all bursting with flavor and history. -- Booklist

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A bittersweet and often funny coming-of-age story set in a cross- cultural and extended family that lives between two kitchens-one traditional, the other New World.Weston Hingler s crib was in the kitchen of BuenAppeTito, his mother s catering service. There, he learned to read while tasting all the flavors of his mother s culinary alphabet. But before he was allowed to enter the Tsil CafŽ, he had to pass his father s taste tests. Anchovies. Haba–ero chiles. Chipotle peppers. Food to purge body and soul. Food his loving but sometimes volatile father uses as a measure of family, friends, and enemies.Caught between these two kitchens, Weston quickly learns that he s also trapped by his wayward parents secrets and histories, infidelities and gaping needs, as well as by the cafŽ customers and employees who are privy to his growing up.Weston chooses his escapes intuitively, but he can t get away. In this layered and savory novel, food is the reflection of life s shifting flavors, and readers will be drawn to the delicious package in which Averill delivers his story-complete with recipes. But ultimately they ll attach to Weston s complicated family, and when Averill serves us their feasts of reconciliation, readers will want to raise a toast.