關於食物的故事，精彩且多面向，配有美麗且非常規的插圖。
這是歐菈·沃丹斯卡-波欽斯卡自然系列叢書的第三集，在精彩的《動物治權》和《垃圾鎮》之後，是時候讀一讀關於食物的書了。 作者以概要方式介紹該主題，先讓讀者了解各歷史層面，如：食物對古人而言是什麼？最早期的人類飲食是什麼？偉大的旅行家尋找哪些香料？ 作者強調飲食在文化上的重要性，包括：哪些食物是特定宗教中禁止食用的，禁食是什麼，食物和餐桌禮儀如何建立關係和社群等，以吸引人的方式介紹健康和均衡的飲食及其在日常生活中的重要性，應該避開什麼及為什麼食物具療效等。沃丹斯卡-波欽斯卡還注意到因社會變遷所導致的當代問題，也不避談飢餓、營養不良、肥胖、暴飲暴食、浪費等讓人不易啟口的話題，以通俗易懂的語言寫成短篇故事，不僅能讓讀者充實美食知識，更帶來視覺饗宴。 37 個簡短章節中的每一章就像是一堂美味課程，內容豐富、幽默又帶精美圖片。 該書鼓勵大家凡事要適度，並勸服貪吃和挑食者接受健康飲食。
伍茨雅·高夫科斯卡（Łucja Gawkowska）
歐菈·沃丹斯卡-波欽斯卡 – 插畫家、平面造型設計師和作家，波茲南藝術大學平面造型設計系畢業，她為兒童和成人圖書繪製插圖、新聞和應用插圖，也設計劇院海報和宣傳畫。
《美味學》，歐菈·沃丹斯卡-波欽斯卡，Publicat SA 出版社，2020年
Selected samples
She climbed her first peaks in a headscarf at a time when women in the mountains were treated by climbers as an additional backpack. It was with her that female alpinism began! She gained recognition in a spectacular way. The path was considered a crossing for madmen. Especially since the tragic accident in 1929, preserved … Continue reading “Halina”
First, Marysia, a student of an exclusive private school in Warsaw’s Mokotów district, dies under the wheels of a train. Her teacher, Elżbieta, tries to find out what really happened. She starts a private investigation only soon to perish herself. But her body disappears, and the only people who have seen anything are Gniewomir, a … Continue reading “Wound”
A young girl, Regina Wieczorek, was found dead on the beach. She was nineteen years old and had no enemies. Fortunately, the culprit was quickly found. At least, that’s what the militia think. Meanwhile, one day in November, Jan Kowalski appears at the police station. He claims to have killed not only Regina but also … Continue reading “Penance”
The year is 1922. A dangerous time of breakthrough. In the Eastern Borderlands of the Republic of Poland, Bolshevik gangs sow terror, leaving behind the corpses of men and disgraced women. A ruthless secret intelligence race takes place between the Lviv-Warsaw-Free City of Gdańsk line. Lviv investigator Edward Popielski, called Łysy (“Hairless”), receives an offer … Continue reading “A Girl with Four Fingers”
This question is closely related to the next one, namely: if any goal exists, does life lead us to that goal in an orderly manner? In other words, is everything that happens to us just a set of chaotic events that, combined together, do not form a whole? To understand how the concept of providence … Continue reading “Order and Love”
The work of Józef Łobodowski (1909-1988) – a remarkable poet, prose writer, and translator, who spent most of his life in exile – is slowly being revived in Poland. Łobodowski’s brilliant three- volume novel, composed on an epic scale, concerns the fate of families and orphans unmoored by the Bolshevik Revolution and civil war and … Continue reading “Ukrainian Trilogy: Thickets, The Settlement, The Way Back”
