A COLLECTION OF GOOD WORDS
菜
Dish
I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.
我在市中心的一家中餐馆吃饭。有一道菜叫母子团圆。这是鸡肉和鸡蛋。我说，我要用这个。
Your idea of that dish has evolved, and if you're a cook, you can start thinking in different ways about it, maybe even a different way than I think about it.
你对那道菜的想法已经进化了，如果你是一个厨师，你可以开始用不同的方式来思考它，甚至可以用不同于我的方式来思考它。
It's the sense of what family is at the dinner table. It was the joy of knowing mother was in the kitchen making our favorite dish. I wish more people would do this and recall the joy of life.
这是家庭在餐桌上的感觉。知道妈妈在厨房里做我们最喜欢的菜是一种快乐。我希望更多的人能这样做，回忆生活的乐趣。
It's not an accident that both my sister and I are writers. Our parents created an accidental Petri dish. My family has great storytellers, and I grew up in a very funny, conversational house and didn't have television. This small family farm was a bubble world that didn't have much to do with reality.
我姐姐和我都是作家，这不是偶然的。我们的父母偶然创造了一个培养皿。我的家庭有很棒的说书人，我在一个非常有趣、健谈的家庭长大，家里没有电视。这个小型家庭农场是一个泡沫世界，与现实没有多大关系。