PREFACE<br > The mo~ h"equenf question asked of me is how I became interested in food and drink of<br > the early West. Though I ve always had an adventuresome palate and enjoyed amateur<br > cooking, the serious beginning point came in 1962, I d bought some land in the foothills<br > southwest of Denver. By sheerest chance, I came across a picture of Bent s Old Fort, an historic<br > fur Irade fort of early Colorado. It looked like a castle, made of adobe bricks. The idea of<br > living in a fort fascinated me, and shortly I began construction of a full-sized replica to serve<br > as my home. Within a year it was completed, but, in order to pay the large mortgage, it was<br > decided to turn a large part of the building into a restaurant.<br > Jumping into the restaurant business was an education. I really had to learn to cook. This<br > meant cooking for several hundred persons al a time, My research into the history of Bent s<br > Fort and the fur trade brought me to reading over 2,000 journals and diaries of the period.<br > Sure enough, one of the most written-about Iacets of life in those days was mealtime. Possibly<br > the mosl outlandish recipe was "mouffle7 This is boiled moose nose. I had asked my game<br > purveyor in Montana to save me some moose noses, for I had read about a favorite dish of the<br > French-Canadian trapper culled "mouffle~ and I was determined to try it. The noses arrived,<br >each about three feet long and covered with thick hair. According to the recipe I d found in<br >Canada, the cook was instructed to put the nose on a stick and hold it over the fire until the<br >hair burned oil. I built a fire on the courtyard of The Fort, and that evening customers walking<br >by sow me roasting a long, ugly, hairy nose over the tire, The smell was hideous. Later I<br >brushed it clean with a wire brush and soaked it overnight in salt water to remove any burnt<br >hair flavor.<br > The moose nose was then boiled with a bit of onion, bay leaf, peppercorn and salt. It<br >turned out to be dull in flavor, extreh~ely bland, and somewhat like a pickled pig s toot in<br >consislency. I put it on the menu tar SI.50 per portion, served cold, sliced, and with a piquant<br >sauce. One evening a disbelieving guest wagered Sl00.00 to another that the "boiled moose<br >nose" on the menu wasn t really moose nose. He lost.<br > Remember too, that cooking isn t a science, It s an art lhat comes from a familiarity with<br >the characteristics at your ingredients combined with your own creative touch, Recipes are<br >only like roadmaps--how you travel and where you end up depends on you. Good luck..,<br > Sam Arnold<br >
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读完后,我最大的感受是关于“道德模糊地带”的深刻探讨。这本书最成功的地方在于,它拒绝提供简单的正义与邪恶的划分。每一个看似“好人”的角色,都在关键时刻做出了基于生存本能的、甚至是残忍的选择;而那些“坏蛋”,他们的行为逻辑往往源自于过去的创伤或社会的系统性压迫。比如那个被视为恶棍的土地开发商,他的冷酷其实源于童年目睹的饥荒,他深信只有铁腕才能保证“秩序”。这种对人性的解剖,非常具有现实意义。作者没有给我们一个明确的结论,而是把那些尖锐的矛盾直接抛给读者,迫使我们去思考:在极端环境下,我们自己的道德底线在哪里?这不是一本读起来让人舒服的书,它需要你投入心神去解构,但这种挑战和随之而来的思考深度,正是顶级文学作品的魅力所在。我向所有喜欢严肃文学和心理深度刻画的读者强力推荐!
评分说实话,我一开始是被这本书的封面吸引的,那个模糊的远山剪影和一匹孤独的马,很有氛围感。但真正让我留下来的是它对“地方性”的构建。作者似乎对那个特定时期的西部有着百科全书式的了解,从马鞍的构造、矿井坍塌的力学原理,到早期拓荒者使用的工具和俚语,都写得一丝不苟。这使得整个故事背景不再是空洞的布景,而是一个活生生的、呼吸着的角色。剧情主线围绕着一条河流的归属权展开,这条河流牵扯到了镇上的富人和穷人,也暴露了权力的腐蚀性。我特别欣赏作者如何巧妙地将环境灾难(比如一场突如其来的沙尘暴)与人物命运交织在一起,沙尘暴不仅物理上阻碍了他们的行动,更像是一种象征,掩盖了真相,也暴露了人性的脆弱。阅读过程中,我仿佛能闻到泥土和汗水的味道,那种沉浸感是很多小说难以达到的高度。
评分这本书的书写风格简直是教科书级别的——冷峻、精准,带着一股子冷硬的现实主义气息。它没有过多的渲染或煽情,全靠扎实的细节和富有张力的对话来推动情节。我被深深吸引的是它对“边缘群体”的细致观察。故事的焦点很快就从牧师转移到了镇上几个边缘人物的命运上:一个被社会抛弃的印第安老妇,一个试图逃离过去却深陷泥潭的前逃犯,还有一个坚强却饱受折磨的妓女。作者似乎对这些生活在道德灰色地带的人们怀有深刻的同情,但又极其克制,从不轻易给出简单的道德评判。他们每一个人都有自己的挣扎和生存哲学,那些对话充满了火药味,寥寥数语就能勾勒出他们生活的艰辛和对救赎的渴望,哪怕他们自己可能都不知道“救赎”为何物。我特别欣赏作者在描绘这些人物时那种不加修饰的真实感,它让整个故事的基调变得异常厚重,读起来像是在品尝一杯陈年的烈酒,入口辛辣,回味却悠长。
评分哎呀,最近读完的那本小说简直让人欲罢不能!它讲述了一个发生在十九世纪末期美国西部的故事,主角是个名叫以利亚的年轻牧师,他带着圣经和一颗虔诚的心,被派往一个被称作“荒凉谷”的小镇。这个地方真是个硬骨头,到处是流浪的牛仔、淘金热后的颓废者,以及各种各样心怀鬼胎的家伙。作者对环境的描绘力道十足,那种干燥的空气、漫天的尘土,甚至是夜晚呼啸而过的风声,都能真切地感受到。我特别喜欢他对人物内心挣扎的刻画,以利亚的信仰在面对这个罪恶深重的社区时受到了前所未有的考验。他试图用温和的说教去感化那些油盐不进的镇民,结果却引来了一连串的麻烦和嘲弄。尤其是镇上的那个酒吧老板,简直是个活生生的恶魔化身,他对以利亚的挑衅和威胁,让我这个旁观者都感到后背发凉。这本书的叙事节奏张弛有度,高潮部分的设计极其精彩,有几次我甚至不得不放下书,深吸一口气才能继续读下去。它探讨了信仰的边界、人性的复杂以及文明与蛮荒之间的永恒冲突,看完后劲十足,久久不能平静。
评分我得说,这本书的结构设计堪称精妙,它采用了多线叙事,但各条线索的交织和汇合处理得非常高明,完全没有那种生硬拼凑的感觉。最让我印象深刻的是,作者时不时地插入一些“历史文献”或“民间传说”的片段,这些插叙极大地丰富了故事的层次感,让读者对这个小镇的历史背景有了更深层次的理解——它不是凭空出现的,而是无数次冲突、牺牲和遗忘的堆叠。我特别留意了其中一个关于“失踪的矿工遗产”的副线情节,这个情节看似与主线无关,但最后却以一种非常出人意料的方式,揭示了某个核心人物的动机。这种布局显示了作者深厚的功力,他不是在写一个简单的故事,而是在构建一个复杂的生态系统。对于那些喜欢精巧结构和隐藏线索的读者来说,这本书绝对值得反复品味,每一次重读,可能都会发现新的联系。
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