This sentence was said by Mr. Cai Lan, but it hit my heart. Cai Lan likes food, and he is better at tasting food. He also opened a food column "Cai Lan sighs about food" on TVB, and even published many books related to food, which are extensive in content and literary, and worthy of being the "four great talents of Hong Kong" on par with Jin Yong, Wang Gongsheng and Ni Kuang!
In my impression, the classic quotations about food or food culture all come from his mouth (the most classic ones are about human flesh, crocodile steak and so on. ), and today this sentence is particularly recognized. In the film "The Tip of the Tongue", the mother's handicraft, noodles made by her mother in northern Shaanxi, yellow croaker made by her mother in the south, and braised pork made by her mother who accompanied her daughter to study in Shanghai are displayed all the time. The role of mother has the most sense of substitution, which awakens the memory of mother. Mom's food is the earliest standard to cultivate our taste buds' aesthetics. Sweet and spicy memories, sour and salty tastes, and even the memory of food color matching are all related to mom's kitchen.
In The Tip of the Tongue, it was selected as the representative food of China. Director Chen Xiaoqing summed up their classification. Generally speaking, there are three types, the third is staple food, the second is grease, and the first is to wrap grease food with staple food. This conclusion will really surprise people. People are not talking about the era of full meals. The daily discussions are one after another, mostly exquisite dishes, while the monotonous staple food, although still needed, is not as important as before. Even Lu Yu, a well-known host, publicly stated that he had not eaten staple food for many years. The same is true of oil. The new health standard of less oil and less salt also deprives oil of its superiority.
In fact, the growing popularity on the tip of the tongue also confirms our preferences in our bones, which has something to do with China people's imagination of food. From 1500, there is a great famine every 70 years, sometimes more frequently. We have a natural affection for big fish, big meat and staple food, and oil, as a powerful energy supply, has already captured the genes of our ancestors for generations.
China has so many cooking skills that the world sighs. A netizen once scoffed at this, saying that he cooked according to foreign recipes, and it was very close, but what he finally made according to China's recipes was incredible! However, being good at processing is our specialty, but we are also obsessed with the creation of nature. What impressed me the most was an old man who went up the mountain to dig bamboo shoots at the right time. The timing of bamboo shoots is the most important. A few days earlier, it would be difficult to dig bamboo shoots. If it is a few days late, it will grow all over the ground and taste bad. For food, people are really picky, and experienced old men dig bamboo shoots. If fresh bamboo shoots are left for a long time, the taste will disappear. The gift of nature is always the most unforgettable. Its delicacy is always influenced by time, place and even climate. The harder the better.
Nowadays, food is always dazzling. I saw one restaurant after another, recommended, popular, charming and crowded, and was forced to wait in line for hours. ...
After a whole article, I was no exception, and became a captive of food, because the charm of food always made us unable to refuse!