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标题：Stringhoppers
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作者：Romesh Gunesekera
期刊名称：Kunapipi
印刷版ISSN：0106-5734
出版年度：1999
卷号：21
期号：2
页码：16
出版社：University of Wollongong
摘要：In 1956, my father was thirty-nine years old. He didn't even know how to boil an egg. But within two years he was creating the kookiest dinners in Washington and had the World Bank eating out of his hand. When he got back, everybody wanted to know how he had done it. 'Easy,' he would say, shrugging his big, round shoulders. 'Stringhoppers. I fed them stringhoppers.' His friends were mystified.