Peter Smith's Top 5 Longreads of 2011
Peter Smith has written about food and science for GOOD, Wired, and Gastronomica.
Peter Smith 为 GOOD、Wired 和 Gastronomica 撰写了有关食品和科学的文章。
He’s based in Maine, and, in 2011, he covered pickle juice, patented sandwiches, and the last sardine cannery in North America.
他居住在缅因州，2011 年，他报道了泡菜汁、专利三明治和北美最后一家沙丁鱼罐头厂。
This is his first attempt at Top Five Longreads.
这是他第一次尝试进入长篇读物前五名。
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Here are my (somewhat arbitrarily selected) #longreads that, er, explore unexpected, underexplored, and purposely obfuscated aspects of the world—sometimes involving the curious things we put in our mouths.
这是我的（有点随意选择的）#longreads，呃，探索世界上意想不到的、未充分探索的和故意混淆的方面——有时涉及我们放进嘴里的好奇的东西。
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“The Mystery of the Canadian Whiskey Fungus,” Adam Rogers, Wired
“加拿大威士忌真菌之谜”，亚当·罗杰斯，《连线》
Mycology hardly gets the kind of attention we reserve for charismatic megafauna—whales and wolves and wooly mammoths—but Adam Rogers explains how a conspicuous black growth in distillery in Lakeshore, Ontario led to the discovery of a previously undiscovered fungal microparadise.
真菌学几乎没有得到我们对鲸鱼、狼和长毛猛犸象等超凡魅力的巨型动物的关注，但亚当·罗杰斯解释了安大略省湖滨酿酒厂的显着黑色生长如何导致了先前未被发现的真菌微天堂的发现。
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“Here Be Monsters,” Michael Finkel, GQ
“这里有怪物”，迈克尔·芬克尔，《GQ》
I read very few stories on my phone, but I started reading this adventure story and could not put it down.
我在手机上读的故事很少，但我开始读这个冒险故事并爱不释手。
Michael Finkel tells the tale of three boys who make a drunken escape off a tiny, isolated island and end up lost at sea, starving and trying to catch fish with the innards of their boat’s engine.
迈克尔·芬克尔讲述了三个男孩醉酒逃离一座偏僻小岛的故事，最终迷失在海上，挨饿了，并试图用船发动机的内部部件捕鱼。
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“Planet in a Bottle,” Christopher Turner, Cabinet
“瓶中星球”，克里斯托弗·特纳，内阁
Diets are a dime a dozen—the Atkins Diet, the Blood Type Diet, the More-of-Jesus-Less-of-Me Diet, the Paleo Diet—but the CRON-diet was not one that I had ever even heard about.
饮食方法比比皆是——阿特金斯饮食法、血型饮食法、多耶稣饮食法、原始人饮食法——但我从未听说过克罗恩饮食法。
Christopher Turner delves into its origins in the failed experiment in the Arizona desert known as Biosphere.
克里斯托弗·特纳 (Christopher Turner) 在亚利桑那州沙漠中名为“生物圈”的失败实验中深入探讨了其起源。
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“India’s Vanishing Vultures,” Meera Subramanian, The Virginia Quarterly Review
“印度正在消失的秃鹰”，Meera Subramanian，《弗吉尼亚评论季刊》
Subramanian’s essay on the devastating unintended consequences of a veterinary drug on India’s vultures, along with one man’s efforts to restore the birds with “vulture restaurants,” elicits a rare enthusiasm for both environmental toxicology and the scavenging creatures who eat the dead.
萨勃拉曼尼安的文章讲述了一种兽药对印度秃鹫造成的毁灭性意外后果，以及一名男子通过“秃鹫餐厅”恢复这些鸟类的努力，引发了人们对环境毒理学和以死者为食的食腐生物的罕见热情。
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“Unnamed Caves,” John Jeremiah Sullivan, The Paris Review
“无名洞穴”，约翰·耶利米·沙利文，《巴黎评论》
Sullivan’s most recent collection—as Wells Tower put it recently—makes you want to barf with envy.
沙利文的最新系列——正如威尔斯大厦最近所说的那样——让你羡慕得想吐。
After reading this extensively researched story about spelunking in Tennessee, wherein the author tries to find the meaning of 6,000-year old cave paintings, I’ll admit, I also had to pick my jaw up off the floor.
在读完这篇经过广泛研究的关于田纳西州洞穴探险的故事后，作者试图找出 6000 年前洞穴壁画的意义，我承认，我也不得不从地板上抬起下巴。
(It’s only excerpted online; you’ll have to buy the paperback.)
（这只是在线摘录；你必须购买平装本。）
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Share your own Top 5 Longreads of 2011, all through December.
整个 12 月，分享您自己的 2011 年 5 首长读作品。
Just tag it #longreads on Twitter, Tumblr or Facebook.
只需在 Twitter、Tumblr 或 Facebook 上标记#longreads 即可。