未知的味觉

我说过，只要我有空，我就喜欢琢磨怎么做菜，这几天我对于如何做“包公过桥”这道菜动了一些脑筋，有时间我就做这道菜，老婆从一开始大家赞赏，倒最后愁眉苦脸的跟我说：“啥好玩意儿也不能总吃啊！”。“不做饭就没有发言权”我一本正经，“试验要重复，工艺要稳定，我认为还有改进的余地！”老婆见反抗无效，自个跑食堂吃去了。剩下我自己面对一堆作品，甚为苦恼。
经过我的一番努力，我已经逐渐把我家厨房变成了食品配方实验室了。从实验室那些高深的试验回来，我总会花上1个小时琢磨我的配方。等我老了，开个老王私房菜，呵呵！
我对我目前厨房的状态甚为满意，而且从那些高深的实验设计中抽身，来做这些最复杂也不过正交设计的美味佳肴时，心里总有说不出的愉快。我做饭的时候很讲求形式，至少围裙、工具等都精益求精，老婆说我没多大本事摆架子吓唬人。其实做饭不光是过程，最关键是心情，你说呢？这不，今天这道“包公过桥”被老婆晒了冷场后，我就切身感触到，建立一个食品感官评价标准有多难。要建立这样一套标准，光靠科学仪器是没用的，毕竟食品最后是给人吃，随意肯定要和人本身的感觉结合起来，这让我想起以前做的专家系统，能不能做一个国人口味数据库呢？进而演化成食品感官数据库。搜集不同地区，不同经历、不同性别、不同民族、不同经济条件的人，建立他们和他们喜欢的食品风味之间的关系，而这些风味的阈值由仪器测定。哈哈，不错，有空查查资料看看。

昨天英语学习VOA订阅地址esfeed.wangyutang.com的订阅数从一百多一下子降到43个，还感叹这一周不更新效果倒是真明显。今天听英语的时候，看我订阅的几个VOA听力文本的站点订阅数更少的可怜，还没有我这二手贩子多呢，想想那么大的站点没人订阅的确有些可惜，今天就把我订阅的一些英语VOA文本的RSS地址告诉大家，其实这些地址都自带VOA听力材料，只是因为伟大的墙的缘故，我们播放不了。
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This is the VOA Special English Education Report.

A science teacher from Prineville, Oregon, in the Pacific Northwest, is the new National Teacher of the Year.

Michael Geisen is thirty-five years old. He was a forester. But he decided he would rather work with growing minds than with growing trees. Seven years ago, he got a master’s degree in teaching and a job at Crook County Middle School. Crook County has high rates of poverty.

He brought new energy to the science department. He also created school projects to get parents involved in their children’s work.

One girl who was recently in his class said he could probably make it interesting to watch grass grow.

During lunch, his students come to his room to talk, get help, visit his turtle and sometimes join him in playing guitar. He writes songs and develops games about science. He says one of his goals as a teacher is to create people who will continue to learn throughout their lives.

Michael Geisen studied forest resource management and graduated with high honors from the University of Washington.

He says he tries to be creative with each activity. He does not like to use textbooks much. When students know that the work is local and useful to their lives, he says, they start to get interested.

On June first Michael Geisen will begin a year as a spokesman for education. The father of two young children will travel the country and the world.

The National Teacher of the Year program, a project of the Council of Chief State School Officers, began in nineteen fifty-two. The winner is chosen from among state teachers of the year.

President George Bush honored this year’s top teachers at the White House last week. He noted that in Michael Geisen’s first two years as head of the science department, scores on a state science test rose sharply at his school. And they are still rising. The president’s education reform law, the No Child Left Behind Act, expanded testing as a way to measure results.

But speaking at the White House, the new National Teacher of the Year said children are “not just numbers to be measured.”

MICHAEL GEISEN: “Students need to know that we value more than just being right all the time. We need to really honor their creativity. We need to honor their desire to learn useful skills that are going to be relevant to the twenty-first century world.

“These are skills such as innovation and creativity, people-skills like compassion and collaboration and the ability not to just know the details but to really see how it fits into the big picture. This is our real challenge, is to educate the entire child.”

And that’s the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. I’m Steve Ember.

 

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