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甜蜜时光
sweet
moments
Toward the end of her recently released book, Butterflies and All
Things Sweet, Bonnae Gokson quotes the Bengali writer Rabindranath
Tagore: “The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has
time enough.” The book, subtitled The Story of Ms. B’s Cakes, is a
celebration of Ms. Gokson’s focus on evanescent pleasures, on the
enjoyment of moments, and on her tremendous talent for creating
sweet moments for other people.
These sweet moments often take the form of her famously
inventive cakes. “The cakes I create for my customers are like
butterflies, here and then gone, devoured in a few sweet bites,” she
says. The book itself is a series of lovely moments, with images of
the cakes surrounded by the things that have inspired them: “Spools
of brightly colored ribbons, the seeds of a pomegranate, a fragment
of handmade lace that holds memories of my years in fashion, the
petals of a peony: all these things inspire me to create cakes that give
pleasure to my customers.”
You might say that Bonnae Gokson’s aim in life has been to
release a series of butterflies out into the world. The evidence in her
book suggests that she has been succeeding, and beautifully.
香港「甜点女王」郭志怡 (Bonnae Gokson) 在新书「Butterflies and
All Things Sweet」 文末引用了印度诗人泰戈尔的一段话 :「蝴蝶在世不
算年月,而以瞬息计,却已无比充裕。」新书副标为「The Story of Ms.
B’s Cakes」,记载了郭志怡追求生命乐趣的执着。她享受每一刻,发挥
无限想像力为客人创造甜蜜回忆。
这些令人无法忘怀的回忆,主要归功于她的招牌创意蛋糕。郭志
怡形容 :「我为客户量身订做的蛋糕就像蝴蝶一样,不消几口即享用完
毕,稍纵即逝。」新书内容如同美好时光的汇串,一幅又一幅精美蛋糕
伴随其灵感来源的美丽画面,正如书中所述 :「亮色缎带的卷轴、石榴
的籽、勾起过往时尚界回忆的一片手工蕾丝,或牡丹花瓣-都能激发
我的灵感,创作独一无二的蛋糕,带给客人欢乐。」
或许可以说郭志怡的人生目标,就是让一只只蝴蝶来到这个世界。
由这本书可知,她成功了,蝴蝶翩翩起舞,美丽又动人。
Marie Antoniette’s
Crave Cake from SEVVA
Ebony & Ivory from Ms B’s Cakery
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