【推荐1】“Today is Mom’s birthday, Mosh,” Nick said. “Let’s make her favorite banana bread and surprise her.”     1     I’ll read the recipe, and you follow it. Get out a bowl and a spoon while I turn on the oven.” Nick read from the cookbook. “First, mash (捣碎) the bananas in the bowl.”

    2       “Stop!” Nick said. “Let’s try this again. Peel the bananas, put them in the bowl, and mash them with the spoon.” Nick watched when Mosh peeled the bananas and put the peel (外皮) into the bowl.     3       Then he showed the robot which part of each banana should go into the bowl.

Then Nick read, “Add the eggs. No, wait,” he said right away. Nick cracked (打碎) the eggs into the bananas.

“Last, add flour (面粉), milk and sugar,” Nick said. “Mix everything together. Then pour the batter (面糊) into the bread pan.” Mosh followed Nick’s orders while Nick read the cookbook. “I’ll put this in the oven,” Nick picked up the pan.

    4     “What happened in here?” she felt surprised.

Nick answered, “Mosh and I are making banana bread for Mom’s birthday.     5    ”

“If you want it to be a good surprise for Mom,” Kelly laughed, “you need to give Mosh one more order. Clean up!”

【推荐2】“When I started cooking, I just knew that was what I wanted to do,” 12-year-old cook Sienna Cecco from Manchester, England said. Cecco’s love of cooking started when she was four years old. At that time, she always watched her grandmother making meals and she fell in love with it little by little.

In order to let more kids join her and share the happiness of cooking with each other, she started a program on YouTube. “I’m sure about what I’m thinking about,” Cecco says. “I don’t like following others’ recipes (食谱). I want to make my own ones.” Cecco loves Italian food, so her first recipe was the pasta (意大利面). It was special because it was in seven colors, just like a rainbow(彩虹).

In 2020, most people stayed at home because of COVID-19. During that time, Cecco began making cooking videos with her dad Maurizio. Maurizio is a cook (厨师) and the Salvi’s is his restaurant. Cecco and Maurizio made videos there every Thursday. Their videos were popular and they even appeared at the Manchester Food and Drink Festival Awards 2020.

Cecco thinks students should have more cooking classes at school. “Cooking is fun. It’s a life skill. My dream is to have my own restaurant. It’s not easy, but I won’t give up. I’m a quiet girl, but I enjoy it,” Cecco says.

【推荐3】3D printing is becoming more and more popular. We are now able to create things we need very quickly and easily using 3D printers. But can you imagine printing food?

Some scientists are trying to change the dining experience by doing this. They hope that having a 3D printer in the kitchen will be as common as the microwave oven or blender (搅拌器).

Scientists say that it’ll be quite easy. You simply have to select a recipe (食谱) and put the uncooked food ‘inks’ into the printer. You can also modify (修改) the instructions to make the food exactly how you want it. This means that it would be very quick and easy to create tasty and healthy meals.

Using 3D printers to create your meals would save the environment. There would be less need for traditional growing shipping and packaging steps as food production would be a lot quicker and better. For example, tree leaves and insects could be turned into tasty products.

Printing food could also help people who have swallowing (吞咽) trouble. They could program the printer to print softer kinds of their favorite foods so that they would not have difficulties in swallowing them.

However, some people think that future of 3D food printing would be disaster (灾难). It could take away many jobs, including those from growing, shipping and packaging food. Imagine a world where there was no need for farming or growing crops and the same tastes could be printed from an uncooked “food ink”. Traditional cafes and restaurants might lose business. Also, there are worries about the healthy value of printed food. Is it really possible to get what we need from food-based inks or something like that?

As we know, cooking and eating together with family and friends has long been a traditional and enjoyable activity. It is hard to imagine a world where the pleasure of cooking is dead and meals can be created at the touch of a button.

【推荐1】Lao She wrote Teahouse in 1957. The play shows the audience life in China between 1898 and 1945. It takes place in a teahouse in old Beijing and it tells us the story of Wang Lifa and his customers. It asks us to see the teahouse as the centre of the neighborhood. Finally, it says goodbye to old Beijing and its people.

The story starts in 1898 during the Qing Dynasty. It continues in 1916, and finally, it brings the audience to the end of the Anti-Japanese War in 1945. After the war, Wang loses the teahouse and dies.

Lao She was born in Beijing in 1899. His parents sent him to the Teahouse’s School in Beijing and he learned to teach.

From 1924 to 1929 he taught Chinese to the English in London. He wrote many plays novels and short stories. He was named a “People’s Artist” and a “Great Master of Language”. He was one of the greatest Chinese writers of the 20th century.

In Lao She’s Teahouse today, waiters bring tea to the customers and sell them delicious Chinese food. If you like Beijing Opera, folk music, acrobatics or magic shows, you can enjoy them in the teahouse. Lao She’s Teahouse gives a wonderful welcome to everyone from China and from all over the world.

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