由火山烹煮的晚餐

在亚速尔群岛的圣米格尔岛上，有一个叫富尔纳斯的村庄，那里的土地本身就带着热气。蒸汽从地面的洞口升起，脚下的泥土也是温热的。这个地方就坐落在一座火山之上，当地人已经学会了让这座火山以美味的方式为他们工作。

On the island of São Miguel, in the Azores, there is a village called Furnas where the ground itself is alive with heat. Steam rises from holes in the soil, and the earth feels warm under your feet. This place sits on top of a volcano, and the people here have learned to make the volcano work for them in a delicious way.

一大早，厨师就往一个高高的锅里装满肉、香肠、卷心菜和其他蔬菜。然后，戴着厚厚的手套，厨师把盖好的锅放进地面挖好的一个洞里，再把泥土盖回去。没有火，也没有炉子。只靠火山的热量，慢慢地、温柔地把食物煮上大约七个小时。

Early in the day, a cook fills a tall pot with meat, sausage, cabbage, and other vegetables. Then, wearing thick gloves, the cook lowers the covered pot into a hole dug in the hot ground and packs the soil back over it. There is no fire and no stove. The heat of the volcano alone will do the cooking, slowly and gently, for about seven hours.

等锅再被拿出来的时候，里面的食物又软又嫩，充满了长时间慢煮带来的风味。空气中飘着一丝来自冒着蒸汽的地面的硫磺气味。家人和游客围坐在长桌旁，吃着这顿由大地亲手准备的饭菜，热气从他们的盘子里袅袅升起。

When the pot is lifted out again, the food inside is soft and tender, full of flavour from the long, slow heat. The air carries a faint smell of sulfur from the steaming ground. Families and visitors gather at long tables, and steam curls up from their plates as they eat a meal that the earth itself prepared.