The wetter snow associated with warmer temperatures in recent years causes a frozen crust to form over the plants, which the reindeer can't break through.

最近几年，与较高温度相关较湿的雪地导致了在这些植物上面形成一层冷冻外壳，而驯鹿却无法打破这层外壳。

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Notwithstanding a fair amount of cheating I used frozen puff pastry it took a day. (The crust broke.) I thought of how many cooks it would take to prepare a hundred birds for that one dish, and how many roaring fires and hand-turned spits to produce a hundred other dishes.

NEWYORKER: A Fork of One��s Own