In this fast-paced life, it’s hard to find the time to cook. But cooking for other people can be fun and beneficial because it comes with some positive psychological benefits.
Performing an act for another human being, like cooking for them, is a form of selflessness. And it can make people feel happy and connected to others.
Cooking is a form of nurturing (养育).
When it comes to cooking, you are feeding someone, which is necessary for survival. Cooking for others is nurturing.
Cooking can create bonds.
If you’re cooking for someone, even if they’re not present during the act, it can absolutely bring a sense of closeness in that you re expressing your love and care for someone.
Not only does cooking for yourself help you eat more healthfully, but it also sends yourself a message that you are important. Cooking can also help raise your confidence.
Cooking is a practice of mindfulness.
Cooking can encourage us to really focus.
Cooking brings us together, and it continues to create communities - and with community comes feelings of connection and happiness. Now all you have to do is find the time to add cooking into your busy life.
| A．Cooking is a form of self-care |
| B．It is helping to keep them alive |
| C．Cooking for others is a selfless act |
| D．Cooking can strengthen your knowledge |
| E．It can provide a means for social acceptance |
| F．If you lose your focus, things can easily go wrong |
| G．Making connections is one of human’s basic needs |
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【推荐1】Who is Li Ziqi? For 7 million watchers on YouTube and 20 million micro bloggers on Sina Weibo, that’s an easy question to answer. She holds an account on each of the two platforms, and uploads her videos about the detailed cooking processes of various kinds of traditional Chinese food.
Li is a craftsperson in a rural area of Southwest China’s Sichuan province. Different from others, she is fond of showing the whole process from the field to the table. For example, in her video about spicy tofu, she starts with harvesting the soy beans, grinding them into powder and making tofu, and then cooks it. Her works also include building a homemade oven to bake bread.
Like the rest of us, Li was probably not born with skills to create the things we see in her videos, but she uses everything and everybody around her as a teacher. Li never attended college, but she shows us how useful self-learning can be in an age of plenty of learning resources.
Li lets the world see one of the most important aspects of the Chinese people, how they live their daily lives. She lets the world know that Chinese people love good food and are good at making art out of even simple raw materials, which have caught the hearts of her global audience.
Moreover, Li’s charming videos show the simple joys of country living, which she can improve by using her head, heart and hands. While others become the product of their environment, she turns her surroundings into her product. Others see problems and feel frustrated, while Li goes and fixes them. We, therefore, can choose to be inspired by her, to seek the artistic solution and enjoy the creativity, joy and relaxation that “doing” life could offer.
1. What is special about Li’s videos?| A．Baking bread in a modern way. |
| B．Both on YouTube and Sina Weibo. |
| C．Mixing Chinese with western food. |
| D．Showing planting and cooking processes. |
| A．Traditional Chinese tofu. |
| B．Turning daily life into art. |
| C．Chinese people’s country life. |
| D．The detailed cooking programme. |
| A．enjoy watching Li’s videos |
| B．fix the broken things by ourselves |
| C．use surroundings to improve our lives |
| D．have the simple joy of country living |
| A．Favorable. | B．Indifferent. |
| C．Doubtful. | D．Negative. |
【推荐2】I love cooking. Food has always been a love language in my family, and I seem to speak it well-both in consumption and preparation.
I love cooking food, whether it’s a holiday feast or a quickly imagined meal.
My memory of her food probably goes back to a day when my mother was making Bolognese-style spaghetti sauce (意大利面酱). The kitchen was small, but the centerpiece was a stove. That’s where my mother showed her art of cooking with love.
One of my first memories of cooking for my family was making my mom’s spaghetti sauce for my wife when we began to live together. I left work early to prepare dinner, before heading back out to pick her up.
Cooking for my family is a way of connecting with my mother, even though she’s no longer physically with us.
| A．Cooking food is not difficult. |
| B．My family loved cooking together. |
| C．My wife seemed to enjoy the meal. |
| D．I enjoy a variety of cooking techniques. |
| E．I love to feed my family with something I prepare. |
| F．Then I was inspired to learn to cook with love from her. |
| G．It’s also a way to show my love to my wife and my children. |
【推荐3】It’s funny—as a writer, it’s easy to share your knowledge, or your personal stories with an unknown listener of many. You think your friends and family may not read your articles. But as I began to talk more openly about Chinese traditions and food, I learned that they were interested, curious and really hungered for it. Their interest and curiosity grew and the culmination of their interest and curiosity was this past Spring Festival. They would like to spend the Spring Festival with me. It was an inconvenient Monday. I’d never had the Spring Festival when anyone but my father cooked.
I took the day off work in a madness of last-minute preparation. I drove 45 minutes out of town to a Cantonese BBQ shop where I bought a whole roast duck (烤鸭) and watched, fascinated, as it was changed into bite sizes. I shopped at a faraway international market like madwoman, looking for Chinese vegetables and other foods that would be new for my guests I called my dad, asking for six-second pointers on how to make dishes I’d never made. I texted him pictures of the sea fish I picked out, and the red clothing they threw on for luck.
In just a few hours, I cooked a dinner of 15 dishes for six friends who cared enough about me and my culture to come over on a cold winter Monday night to celebrate my tradition with me. We drank, ate and toasted the beautiful night. And that night, I felt what it was to be loved for my culture as well as our food.
1. What does the underlined word “culmination” mean in paragraph 1?| A．Top. | B．Celebration. | C．Tradition. | D．Trouble. |
| A．She ate a whole roast duck. | B．She took a roast duck. |
| C．She asked to cook a duck herself. | D．She took beautiful photos of the duck. |
| A．The shops the author went to. | B．The author’s love of Chinese food. |
| C．The author’s preparation for dinner. | D．The suggestions the author’s father gave. |
| A．She is living with her father. | B．She is a madwoman. |
| C．She is a world famous writer. | D．She is proud of Chinese culture. |
