[转载] Roger Ebert: Nil By Mouth

[Jun]

全文可在此读到，差点把我看哭了：
http://blogs.suntimes.com/ebert/2010/01 ... mouth.html

自从做了口腔癌手术之后，Roger Ebert 就不能吃喝与说话。别的不说，他的这段话让我心有戚戚，特别是最近几天看CAVA君贴的这些饭菜照片们。

When it comes to food, I don't have a gourmet's memory. I remember the kinds of foods I was raised to love. Chaz and I stayed once at Les Pres d'Eugenie, the inn of the famous Michel Guerard in Eugénie-les-Bains. We had certainly the best meal I have ever been served. I remember that, the room, the people at the other tables and our view in the photo, but I can no longer remember what I ate. It isn't hard-wired into my memory.

Yet I could if I wanted to right now close my eyes and re-experience an entire meal at Steak 'n Shake, bite by bite in proper sequence, because I always ordered the same items and ate them according to the same ritual. It is there for me.

每个人从小铸造的口味是终生不变和影响最深的记忆，我疑心这个效果不限于食物。

[CAVA]

可怜的Roger Ebert！

我去王家沙点馄饨的时候想到你说的小时候跟外婆去吃点心的故事，又想如今找一碗好吃的小馄饨是多么困难，悲哀。

[Jun]

真的，保留几个那么简单的点心的味道就那么难吗？！

及时享乐太重要了，不知道哪一天就没了，只剩下流口水的记忆。

[CAVA]

传统小吃一心想着扩充，到处开发分店，质量难得有保证。反而是外来的非正宗兰州拉面，每家店都是勤勤恳恳的小伙子努力干活，好些年来味道都没有走样。

[dropby]

看了这篇我又开始内疚不好好喂养欢欢. 妈妈做的好吃的饭菜应该是孩子终生的美好记忆. 我担心象我这样将就下去, 欢欢将来就记得超市买的速冻饺子了.

[Jun]

Oh God. 如果我能够偶尔地隔三差五地吃一顿小美做的饭菜，也足够留下长期的美好回忆了。

[豪情]

这也是我搬到加州的损失啊. 小美做的好吃的, 温哥华的餐馆.