I have finished reading this book for more than a month and have been thinking about writing some thoughts about it. I've been lazy. I've been in the company for another month before, and I haven't written. In addition, I am greedy, so I left many beautiful sentences in the book and copied them into my notebook one by one, which took a lot of time. In a word, Talking about Eating is very interesting to read, and it has written a lot of contemporary dietary customs. Now, Liang Lao is also a full-fledged food blogger.
In Fish, Sheep and Beiping, there is an article about some food in his family when he was a child, only to know that the author was also a big family since childhood. "My hometown is Beiping, which was built by my grandfather more than 100 years ago." "Turn left and enter four screen doors, that is, the front yard." "Enter the hanging flower door, that is, the inner yard." "There are strict rules for meals in big families. Grandparents eat small pot rice, parents and children eat ordinary rice, and courtiers eat big pot rice. " Interestingly, I remember when I was a child, he asked grandpa who was serious and dogmatic loudly whether he wanted to eat "cat shit" or "dog shit", a kind of dried fructose. Perhaps it is because his family is well-off and he has seen all kinds of delicious food in the north and south of the river, so he is familiar with all kinds of famous dishes. For example, he will rank and comment on various dishes and restaurants in the book. "When it comes to boiled meat in Beiping, you will first think of casserole house." "The sour plum soup in Liulichang Xinyuanzhai is very different from the sour plum soup served by sugar-coated haws or street vendors." "Roasted mutton in Beiping is the most famous in Zhengyang Building of Qianmen Meat Market."
I have also seen Wang Zengqi's "Five Flavors", in which the screenwriter remembers all kinds of tastes, and more is to recall the feelings of childhood tastes. Liang Shiqiu shared various cooking tips in Talking about Eating, which is very detailed and practical. It seems that he not only knows how to eat, but also practices a lot by himself. "It turns out that the most important step in making bacon is smoking ... After the bacon is scrubbed, the whole piece is steamed and sliced, and it is best to fry it again with green garlic." I have written a lot about this, and maybe I can use it myself in the future. "Fried yellow vegetables are made of lard, and egg yolks should be made into paste, so they are called fried." In an article about Beijing roast duck, he wrote, "Duck oil can be used to steam egg soup, duck rack can be used to cook cabbage, and soup can also be used to cook and pickle." "A large piece of pork belly mutton is boiled in a pot, fished out and dried slightly, fried in an oil pan until the appearance is brown, then braised in soy sauce in an enlarged pot, boiled until brown, and cut into strips."
Probably a lot of people, like Liang Shiqiu, are thinking in their hearts, remembering the most delicious things, all starting from childhood. "glutinous rice lotus root has always left an indelible impression in my heart. It was easy to get married and start a business later. Sometimes it is served in restaurants, but I tasted it and stopped eating it. " Perhaps when people are most greedy, they want to eat something when they are young, but they can't eat it. I remember a scene in the movie Farewell My Concubine that impressed me deeply. A group of children in the troupe sit or lie together to enjoy the cool and chat. Everyone is talking about what is the best. Little Lai Zi said cheerfully: "The world is the first, and the sugar-coated gourd is the first!" On the same day, after Xiao Laizi escaped from the troupe, he first bought a bunch of candied haws and was later arrested. Maybe I knew I couldn't escape a beating, maybe I experienced the freedom outside, tasted the sugar-coated haws that I had been greedy for a long time, and couldn't bear to live an inhuman life in the troupe, and finally hanged myself.
? My mother's cooking will always be the best in my memory. "My favorite dish from childhood is shredded pork with winter bamboo shoots, a little leek and fungus, and a spoonful of Shaoxing wine on the pot. I think it is the best-but it must be made by my mother herself." Go out after graduation and sometimes go home for the New Year. My mother was overjoyed. When she asks me what I want to eat, I always think about eating braised fish. Yes, the braised crucian carp cooked by my mother has become the taste of home that I often miss when I am wandering outside.
There are not all kinds of delicious foods in the book, but there are also various customs and feelings about eating, which is very interesting to read. In "treat guests", he quipped that "if you want to be safe for one day, treat guests, and if you want to be safe for one year, build a house; If you want to be restless all your life, marry a concubine. " The article "Wedding Banquet" tells the scene of a wedding banquet in a town in Mayang County. Everyone gave different gifts, ranging from one yuan to five yuan. When the host arranged a dish, he arranged for someone to shout "One-yuan guests please come back", and after eating three dishes, he drank "San Qian guests please come back". I think that when the material is poor, this almost solemn and dignified custom shows the tension of people's hard struggle.
? I always think food and cooking are very creative. During the period when the epidemic was closed at home, I began to cook by myself and gradually liked to pour something to eat. I think the noodles and stir-fried dishes I spent time and energy cooking are delicious.