To be a gourmet, you need to have a certain economic ability first, and then you must have a good reputation among diners, and you can influence diners through his choices and recommendations. "In addition to knowing how to eat, he should also know how to make delicious food that meets people's tastes, and how to make seasonings and sauces to satisfy people's taste enjoyment."
In addition, a wide range of knowledge is also a quality that a real gourmet must have. Because food is comprehensive, the raw materials and tastes of dishes made in different places are different, so gourmets need to have a deep study on the eating methods, cooking skills and even the production of sauces in different places. "He can teach people to cook without cooking himself, but he must be able to tell people why this food is so delicious and how it can be better." In addition, gourmets usually pay great attention to the overall impression and effect brought by food, so they will spend a lot of thoughts on furnishings and utensils.
Poverty can't stop you from becoming a gourmet, as long as you know all about food culture, and you can even appreciate its original unique taste from ordinary food.
Gourmets can not only eat, but also write and speak.
Secondly, gourmets should have rich professional knowledge and foundation in food, and have a deep understanding of food culture and cooking technology. "So it is best to be a chef, because he is in addition to? Do you know? Do you still need it? You know why? Tell me why.
A gourmet is a person who deeply understands the way of food. What is Tao? Laozi pointed out that "Tao" is the origin of the material world and the spiritual world, the system of nothingness, the root of nature and the foundation of gods. "Everything is born from it, and the five elements are formed from it." Man and man are only one level evolved from the operating law of Tao. "There are four in the domain, and one is inhabited. Man's law is based on the earth, the earth is based on the sky, the sky is based on the Tao, and the Tao is natural. " All the existence and laws of human beings and human society are the embodiment of Tao. If we want "nature", we need people to be natural. People's life process needs to exchange materials with nature through eating activities. Therefore, people's way of life, health, fitness, diet and cooking are inseparable from Taoism and nature.
Fortunately, the sages of all ages have already had a profound understanding of the way of eating, and they have incisive views on dealing with the relationship between food and nature, food and society, food and health, food and cooking, food and art, etc. It shows the scientific and advanced thinking of food, emphasizing that the way of food is natural, keeping in good health and treating food are the same thing, enjoying harmony and integrating humanistic education into food. Under the guidance of advanced dietary ideas, a scientific dietary structure has emerged in China: nourishing, assisting, benefiting and supplementing-five grains for nourishing, five fruits for assisting, five livestock for benefiting and five vegetables for supplementing. It is with these three kinds of staple food and non-staple food that we can make meals. The diet of China people is reported in American health magazine as "the diet of China people is the most healthy in the world".
A gourmet is a taster. The core of food is taste. Yi Yin said: "The taste is subtle and the mouth can talk." "The Doctrine of the Mean" also said, "People want to eat and drink, but seldom know the taste". Xiaoyu, a chef in Yuan Mei, once lamented: "It is difficult to know a bosom friend, but it is especially difficult to know a taste"! China pays attention to harmony and sweetness in cooking. Harmony is the highest standard, and the best state of the beauty of diet is harmony. This "harmony" can not only meet people's physiological needs, but also meet people's psychological needs. The principle of "harmony" is the sum of meat and vegetables, sex and taste, and seasons. A delicious food that can reconcile various tastes is "sweet", which is also called "sweetness and harmony" in the Book of Rites. The Tao of eating is embodied in the Tao of taste. Knowing this means knowing the taste.
prerequisite
Everyone eats delicious food every day, but not everyone can be a gourmet. Even if you eat abalone wings and belly every day, it will only become a gluttony, not a gluttony.
To be a gourmet, you must have several basic conditions. You need some money first. The amount of money at least exceeds the needs of the stomach. If you have to eat some side dishes and buy some noodles just for the sake of living expenses, and only go to restaurants and restaurants occasionally to eat by the month, then being a gourmet is probably just daydreaming. Second, you should have many opportunities to eat, or live in a prosperous restaurant, or travel around to taste delicious food, or hire a chef with high cooking skills. If you have never been out of the house all your life and eat monotonous food every day, isn't it empty talk to be a gourmet? Third, we must have a high level of food culture, know some cooking skills, and know that "flat printing is soft and crisp, sour and salty" (Yuan Meiyu). If you don't have this third condition, you can't be a gourmet. Nowadays, who can you meet who is rich and frequents restaurants, but lacks or even has no food culture and becomes a gourmet?
Anyone who meets the above three basic conditions may become a gourmet. But this does not mean that qualified people can become gourmets. Turning "possibility" into "necessity" requires a process, a certain period of accumulation, a leap from quantity to quality, and a profound understanding of the way of eating by the parties concerned.
According to my observation, at present and in the future, the most qualified and likely to become gourmets are the food creators and chefs who are engaged in cooking, the managers of restaurants and restaurants, scholars, writers and artists who are concerned about the development of food culture, and all kinds of "delicious mouths" who take food enjoyment as their life pleasure in society. "Food" can't be evaluated by an organization like a professional title, but its people and food activities are recognized by the society, and I think it will be more respected by the world than those who are worthy of the name.