THE ART OF BAKING BLIND

Book ID/图书代码： 06400014B68378

English Summary/英文概要： THE ART OF BAKING BLIND is set during a baking competition run by Eaden’s, an upmarket supermarket, aimed at finding the new ‘Mrs Eaden’, (the Delia Smith of her day). Spliced with extracts from Kathleen Eaden’s classic cookbook The Art of Baking and with sections set in the 1960s in her voice, it follows the lives of the four very different competitors – Vicki, who has given up her teaching job to stay at home and be the perfect mother to three-year-old Alfie; Jenny, who copes with her empty nest by cooking obsessively for her dentist husband (who has just taken up marathon running); twenty-something single mother Claire, on the checkout at Eaden’s, who cannot believe shoppers like Vicki and Jenny who throw whole vanilla pods in their baskets; and polished, predatory Carole, whose perfect life masks a very dark soul. And looming over them all is the original Mrs Eaden, whose book has inspired generations of women to learn ’the simple pleasure of mixing a handful of ingredients – flour, yeast, water, salt and sugar– and witnessing culinary magic take place.’ Did she exist, or was she just a projection of the woman her readers wanted her to be?

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 《随心烘焙的艺术》的故事发生在由伊登举办的烘焙比赛上，伊登是一家高端超市，其经营目标便是瞄准与发现下一位“伊登夫人”，（全新的德利娅•史密斯）。全书中充满着卡瑟琳•伊登的经典食谱《烘焙的艺术》中的手札，同时还有60年代的作者本人之见，在此基础之上，全书围绕四名参赛者的人生故事而展开---薇姬放弃了自己教书的工作，转而全心全意做好全职家庭主妇，并努力成为年仅三岁的阿尔菲的完美妈咪；詹妮通过疯狂地为身为牙医的丈夫烹饪来填补自己内心的空虚（她的丈夫刚刚参加了马拉松比赛）；20几岁的单亲妈妈克莱尔是伊登的收营台柜员，她无法接受像薇姬和詹妮这样的顾客竟然会将一整块香草放入购物篮中；圆滑且极具掠夺性的卡洛勒拥有着人人欣羡的完美生活，殊不知其背后是一颗黑暗的心灵。而即将到来的则是伊登夫人的鼻祖本人，她的烹饪书曾激励了一代又一代的女性去学习“混合一小把面粉、酵母、水、盐和糖后所获得的简单乐趣---并静观烹饪的神奇魔法”。她真的如此神奇吗？抑或她只是追随读者们对她的期许，成为了她们希望她成为的那个人？（DC）

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About the Author/作者介绍： 本书作者是莎拉•瓦根，曾就读于牛津大学英语专业，并在《卫报》担任了长达11年的记者，其中在担任了5年的新闻播报员---工作内容涵盖有北爱尔兰暴动的一切动向及索哈姆谋杀案等---随后她成为了一名政治版块的记者。作为议会新闻记者，她经历过伊拉克战争以及内政大臣大卫•布朗克特等的辞职。2006年，她成为了一名健康栏目记者，2008年，当发现两个孩子均对新闻记者毫无兴趣时，她又自愿辞职。作者现与丈夫及两个小孩子居住在剑桥附近。

The author, Sarah Vaughan, read English at Oxford and went on to become a journalist. She worked for 11 years at the Guardian where, after five years as a news reporter – covering everything from Northern Ireland riots to the Soham murders –she became a political correspondent. Her time in the lobby ran from the run-up to the Iraq war to the resignation of Home Secretary David Blunkett. In 2006, she became a health correspondent and in 2008 took voluntary redundancy after two children proved incompatible with news journalism. She now lives near Cambridge with her husband and two small children.

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