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2024年高考英语时文阅读与强化练习
专题03
藏族风味
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【原文·外刊阅读】
True Tibetan taste: sincere and simple
(文章来源:Global Times)
Food has always been the most direct link between people and culture. It bypasses all layers of consciousness, directly impacting the body, sparking one's love for a certain long-standing civilization in just a few seconds. So, when traveling, we are always persistent in searching for local delicacies. The logic behind this behavior is that we hope to experience a unique culture by tasting a local specialty.
In today's world, with the development of transportation, logistics, and information, food has become the most widely shared and quickly disseminated medium for cultural exchange. A chef can appear anywhere in the world with his recipes, ingredients, and kitchen setup. Food enthusiasts, even more fervently, spread their taste experiences as widely as possible through the internet.
An obvious fact is that building the uniqueness of a culture based on the exclusivity of its cuisine is a thing of the past.
In the morning, Dawa Yuzhen was in a hurry, so she only had an egg sandwich from a fast-food restaurant. But around 11 am, feeling a bit hungry, she placed an order online for vacuum-packed butter tea. This butter tea came from a long-established sweet tea house in Lhasa, a place where Dawa Yuzhen's ancestors were regular customers in their youth. For lunch, she enjoyed a serving of buttered tsampa. Along with that she enjoyed tomato-braised beef stew, prepared by her husband from Shaanxi, and sweet duck sent by her classmate from Sichuan. During work in the afternoon, she brought some air-dried yak meat made at home, sharing it with her office colleagues and performing a ritual for herself. For dinner, she planned to visit a newly opened Japanese restaurant with her colleagues and since the following day was the weekend, she thought she might also have a small gathering with her family in the evening.
Tsampa is a characteristic snack of the Xizang Auton