There’s a chill in the air but my kitchen is filling with the warm scent of honey and spice: cinnamon, anise, mace, cloves and ginger. I am making German Lebkuchen, or Advent cookies, which smell as cosy as a winter market. Baking gingerbread feels like a sweet denial of the harsh world outside the kitchen, and more so than ever in this second pandemic year.
屋外的空氣中帶著一絲寒意，廚房里卻彌漫著溫暖的甜香氣味：肉桂、茴香、肉蔻皮、丁香還有生姜。我正在烘制德國姜餅（也叫圣誕小餅干），它們聞起來就像冬季的市集那么宜人。烘焙姜餅的感覺就如同是在溫和地抗拒廚房外那個嚴酷的世界，在疫情的第二個年頭，這種感覺比以往任何時候都更為強烈。
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