Well, in the "dead" camp, I love M. F. K. Fisher. She's funny and sarcastic, and she really does take you into the flavours of things and they, it feels, become metaphors for emotion. 

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过去的那些作家里，我比较喜欢M. F. K. Fisher。她又风趣又毒舌，真的能带你领略食材的各种味道，还能用味道来隐喻不同的情感。