Food has different meanings for everyone. Some people have three meals a day, some people pursue the enjoyment on the tip of their tongue, and some people like to eat stories.
I have always liked stories related to eating since I was a child, and the most direct manifestation is my enthusiasm for various film and television dramas related to eating.
From the god of gourmets, ratatouille, gourmet paradise to China on the tip of the tongue, string of life to Manchu-Chinese banquet, midnight food store, Chinese young master, etc. , covering movies, TV series, documentaries and other forms.
After watching a movie and a story satisfactorily, it feels like eating a big meal, and it is really no problem to say that it can be eaten with the meal.
What impressed me most was the food in the film.
Since the development of the media, there have been many official WeChat accounts about food, but I only left an "eclipse" in the end, not only because the author named Sean looks delicious and has a story, but also because the food looks delicious.
The cat on it is Sean's adopted kitten. Its name is "shortbread" and it is the mascot of the solar eclipse.
Unexpectedly, Sean really has a story about food.
As a veteran fan, I immediately bought two books, kept half of them for myself, and gave the other one to a friend who loves to cook for us.
Finished, hungry, full and warm.
Sean's parents are educated youths in big cities. After giving birth to him, Lao Dao was sent to his grandmother's house in Shanghai when he was one year old, because he was busy with his work and hoped to see a bigger world.
Because of his personality, he has no friends of his age. He is served with oil chopping board, pig's feet with sauce, lion's head, oil gluten stuffed meat, ribs rice cake and so on.
What I used to do since I was a child was to run away from home, holding the sauce pig's feet made by my grandmother in one hand and colored chalk in the other, running from one end of the alley to the other, sweating the pig's feet to my mouth and doodling on the wall.
As written, the order is reversed: draw the pig's feet with sauce on the wall and send the chalk to your mouth.
When I was a child, Lao Dao was very lonely. His parents are not around, and he doesn't have any friends, because the identity of a loan student is also incompatible with his classmates at school. Although his grandmother tried to understand him, the gap was insurmountable.
The most precious memory is the sauce pig's feet he accidentally painted on the wall of the alley. Hair on the skin is removed cleanly, and soy sauce is also full and moist. Bones and tendons are the most delicious. After eating, my hands are sticky, and the aftertaste of washing my hands is enough to smell all afternoon.
At lunch the next day, grandma will take out the ice bowl containing the sauce trotters the night before, put the trotters in the bowl with a spoon, watch it melt into white silk hot rice, and then eat it. This is the most wonderful taste in the world.
However, grandma will never sit at the door waiting for him again.
Lao Dao adopted a golden retriever named Xiao Dao, who is now in her teens and very old.
When I first saw the knife, it was over one year old. It is said that its former owner returned it to the pet shop because his wife gave birth to a child, and perhaps for other reasons.
Every day when I pass by Lao Dao after work, I can see it staring out of the window in a cage alone, as if I haven't found a new owner for a long time.
So, Lao Dao grabbed his home with a knife.
Slowly, Lao Dao gradually discovered the difference between knives and other dogs.
Although they are relatives, they are afraid of being hugged. It always breaks your arm and can't touch your stomach, let alone lie flat.
Take-away food or other things on the table, even if you can get them easily, you will never eat them. It doesn't dare to get on the bus by itself, even if it is held behind by the old knife, it will take a long time to try.
Lao Dao can feel that many of its cunning and caution may be due to its self-protection. Although we have been together for many years, somewhere in the knife psychology, we are still wary of people and cannot accept a person wholeheartedly.
And such a knife silently accompanied the old knife through the most turbulent times. The band broke up, found a job, resigned, fell out with their families, opened their own studio ... and had a period of worst state.
Once Lao Dao dragged his tired body home, because he saved effort and walked the dog without traction. After a short message, the knife disappeared ...
Looking for a long time without results, the disheartened old Dao came home only to be surprised to see the Dao waiting for him at home, and stood up and wagged his tail at him.
When the knife got old, Lao Dao began to try to make it happy in his later years.
In addition to dog food, Lao Dao will boil beef in white water, while cooling the meat, make a team pot with beef soup, add kimchi, hot sauce, lunch meat, tofu and white radish, put instant noodle cakes, and if possible, add a slice of cheese to beat an egg, which is impeccably rich.
When he finished eating noodles, the hanging beef was not hot. So the knife eats meat and the old knife eats noodles.
A friend who knows the origin of Dao once asked Lao Dao, would it make him feel sorry that Dao might always have reservations about him?
Lao Dao doesn't care. On that most exhausting night, he was willing to wait for him at the door, even if it was only half a step away from him.
Born in the world, I was fortunate to meet a gentle soul and walk with it for a period of time, even if it is as plain as water.
Of course, Lao Dao's story is not over yet. In fact, there are many more, such as chicken noodle soup, slap fried rice, an egg jiaozi, rainbow cake, crispy tuna egg cups, rock-and-roll tomato gravy noodles, rotten meat rolls at the end, cat's back fish porridge, cold noodles and small ribs, vegetables when you grow up, life menu beef noodles, mysterious cakes full of stars, the smell of fish in Maodao, and healing.
Lao Dao has been eating in the way he likes all his life.
And I, too, have my own life and need to eat.
Probably in the third grade of primary school, my father went to Shandong on business for a month because of his work.
It's just me and my mother at home. It's summer vacation. My mother works during the day, so I naturally play at home or outside.
Usually my mother will go home before 6 pm and start cooking for me. And one day, I didn't come back until 8 pm.
At that time, mobile phones were still a luxury, and I didn't know the public telephone at my mother's work place, so I had to wait at home while watching TV.
I don't know where a child got so many ideas, but I started thinking when I was waiting.
All kinds of terrible scenes come to mind. Finally, I began to cry and shouted, "Oh, my God … Oh, my God … where are you …" "
Crying and crying, mom came back.
Seeing me like this, she is really in distress situation. She coaxed me into cooking. That night, it was nearly ten o'clock after dinner. In the era when mobile phones were not popular, ten o'clock was relatively midnight.
My mother came back late because she worked overtime. She's afraid I'm in a hurry and I'm hungry. She rode home quickly and accidentally fell on a bad road.
I silently said to myself, tomorrow night, I will cook for her.
The next night, before my mother came back from work, I began to worry. What should I do?
Looking at the leftovers at home, tomatoes, eggs and cucumbers, I frown.
In my impression, only three dishes and one soup are standard meals.
After thinking hard, I finally tried to do it. A third-grade child used a gas stove and made various gestures with a knife. Now that I think about it, I'm still a little scared.
However, at that time, I finally succeeded in cooking three dishes and one soup.
Three dishes are scrambled eggs with tomatoes, cucumber eggs, cucumber tomatoes, and one soup is tomato cucumber egg soup.
When my mother came back, she looked at a table of food, moved and in distress situation. ...
I still can't remember how the taste is made. But I think what should be cooked tastes good, because my mother eats delicious food.
Eating is the most important thing in one's life.