13-03-08 How's it look? my mother asked me. I stared into the boiling pink goo（感伤，粘性物） bubbling up in the pan. My mom had decided that we should have an old-fashioned Christmas this year, and we were experimenting with making taffy（太妃糖） for the...

12-08-08 Instead of the typical standing at a curb, ordering and eating, the customers of these new eateries are given the option to step on board and be seated at tables inside the bus. Bustaurants have been popping up all over the place for some time now,...

12-05-15 Milk poured down Britain's kitchen sinks each year creates a carbon footprint equivalent to thousands of car exhaust emissions, research shows. Scientists say the 360,000 tonnes of milk wasted in the UK each year creates greenhouse gas emissions equ...

12-03-13 Interpreting the Films Heidy Steidlmayer Here I am hunched（缩成一团的） over another impression of the brain with its wads of flat batting and weird yarn, thinking how can I read these films without a light board me, foolishly holding each chronic...

11-09-28 Domestic goddess refers to a female who excels at baking, cooking, cleaning-housework of all sorts. She loves to please and enjoys hearing compliments about her awesomeness around the house/kitchen. She may sew, knit, and have domestic hobbies that...

11-09-16 The end of my sophomore year was approaching. Mom called me at the dorm one muggy（闷热的） evening during the last week of May. My summer break would be spent with grandma and grandpa, helping out around their farm. The arrangement made good sense...

10-12-12 With the festive season approaching, it is the kind of news likely to leave flustered housewives shaking their heads in disbelief. 在圣诞节临近之际，这种新闻可能会让忙乱的家庭主妇们摇头表示难以置信。 A third of men, it is reckoned（测算，估计） , wo...

10-11-25 并非故意要倒胃口，但是亲爱的朋友，你一定也吃过地沟油。据专家估计，目前我国每年返回餐桌的地沟油有200至300万吨。按照比例，你吃十顿饭，可能有一顿碰上的就是地沟油。 而目前我们甚至还没有找到一种理想的检测和鉴别地沟油的手段。 请看《中国日报》的报道： The...

10-06-10 很多已婚人士说，结婚以后少了很多自由，要去哪里都要向另一半汇报，人家不同意还不能去。估计这是一个世界性的问题吧。国外很早就有专门形容这种情况的词，叫kitchen pass（厨房通行证）。别想错了，不是说家里进厨房还要通行证，而是你想出去的话，得先得到在厨房忙...

09-08-22 According to research by Prof Jonatahn Gershuny, who runs the Centre for Time Research at Oxford, men now spend more than half an hour a day cooking, up from just 12 minutes a day in 1961 Men are spending more and more time in the kitchen encouraged...