When I was very young, I often went shopping with my grandma.

This old lady who has been cooking all her life will always consciously teach me how to distinguish the freshness of pork, old or tender eggplants, whether vegetables have been treated with pesticides...

When I got home, my grandma gave me a small chair and asked me to sit down and help her peel beans, pick vegetables, and do small things within my ability.

At that time, I was ignorantly repeating these simple tasks, but I didn’t understand that my grandma was teaching me how to cook and the most ordinary but also the most extraordinary things in my life.

Now that I have grown up, walking alone in the fresh food section of the supermarket always feels light and joyful.

When I saw the exquisite and beautiful cups, plates and bowls, I couldn’t help but want to take them all home.

If you cook a good meal and eat it when you are unhappy, you will no longer be afraid of ups and downs.

It turns out that daily life is also a kind of growth and practice.

Because food contains a vast world, and cooking also contains thousands of universes.

?So you must learn to cook, not only to fill your stomach, but also to heal yourself with food and energy in this world where gentleness and cruelty coexist. ?

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Cooking is a survival skill.

Chie, a cancer mother in Japan, risked her life to give birth to her daughter Ahua. Unfortunately, the cancer cells spread and her life began to countdown.

This strong and brave mother wanted to leave a lifelong legacy to her daughter before she passed away.

After much thought, Qianhui decided to teach her daughter to cook, because learning to cook means the formation of survival ability.

On Ahua’s 4th birthday, her mother gave her an apron as a birthday gift and began to consciously train her to cut vegetables and make soup.

So, the little girl, who was not taller than the stove, stepped on the small stool, tremblingly picked up the kitchen knife and spatula, and used her young hands to play with the pots and pans, mixing oil, salt, sauce and vinegar.

While other children are still tired of acting coquettishly in their parents' arms, A-hua has already put on an apron and is in charge of the family's stomach and mood.

The mother is naturally distressed, but she can only be cruel and push her daughter into the trials and tests of life.

She said:

"Ahua, cooking is closely related to life. I want to teach you how to hold a kitchen knife and how to do housework.

Study You can put it second. As long as you are healthy and can support yourself, you will be able to survive no matter where you go or what you do in the future."

A-hua's cooking

You can support yourself. ?It has been simplified by many parents today to high scores and high salaries, and the phrase "you just need to study hard and don't worry about anything else" has become their mantra.

Children who grow up and live alone often eat takeout as a daily routine, and gastrointestinal problems arise one after another.

But what can people who cannot take good care of their health do to shake hands with life?

From this perspective, the mother of the little girl Ahua has good intentions.

Qianhui passed away before her daughter was 5 years old.

Ahua's father lives a depressed life, but is saved by the brown rice and miso soup made by his daughter on tiptoe.

The father and daughter depend on each other for life, and continue to live a life of joy and sorrow amidst the pain of losing their wife and mother.

The grown-up A-hua

A-hua’s life will not be too bad, because she will not wrong her heart and stomach, and knows how to love herself and others, no matter what. Under any circumstances, he will not let his cowardice and pain go.

Teaching a child to cook is to teach him to make a living and make love.

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Cooking is an art of living.

I have met some girls whose expressions change all the time when they talk about cooking.

When this topic comes up, they play with their new manicures and proudly express that they have no fingers in the sun and are pampered girls who were raised rich.

Cooking always seems to have a smoky smell, which makes people involuntarily think of the yellow-faced woman who is hovering around the stove, making soup and water, and watching the autumn water in front of the dinner table.

Therefore, girls are subconsciously resisting. Perhaps what they are resisting is not cooking, but the sad life of being a housewife who loses herself.

I also had such a prejudice. After all, I had witnessed my grandmother and mother who spent their youth eating porridge and rice, so I couldn’t wait to escape from that fate.

When I was a teenager, I only hoped that I would wear high heels and go to work in the future, but I was never willing to bow my head and wash my hands and make soup.

It wasn’t until I was a guest at a professor’s home in college that his wife wore a homely linen dress and cut fruit and served it on a plate with a smile.

There are oranges, kiwis and strawberries. It cannot be said to be very complicated, but once you put your mind to it, the whole fruit plate becomes alive and beautiful.

I quietly glanced into the kitchen and saw the mistress with her long hair tied up and quietly cutting beef. Their kitchen was clean and tidy, and there was a bottle of lavender wine on the stove. dried flower.

The dinner that day was very sumptuous. The braised beef was served in a large blue and white bowl, the cold preserved eggs were arranged like blooming flowers, and the green vegetables lined the white porcelain plates. The whole table was full of life and fragrance.

The teacher’s wife enthusiastically introduced to us how to make each dish, and told us with a smile:

“I like cooking very much, watching them become beautiful and delicious in my hands, The satisfaction and happiness in my heart are simply beyond words."

The professor looked at his wife with admiration and affection, and kept saying, "Thank you for your hard work, madam."

It turns out that there really is a kind of woman who can turn firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea into music, chess, calligraphy, painting, poetry and hops.

We were filled with admiration, and when we asked further, we found out that the master’s main research area was aesthetics, and she also had a lot of experience in food. She said something to us at that time that we will never forget.

She said: "Women cook not to please their husbands and families, but to make life more beautiful. Because cooking itself is an art."

Can use a People who use meals to express their aesthetic tastes and exquisite thoughts naturally know how to escape from the pressure of life and live a happy and prosperous life.

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Cooking is a gift of love.

Less than a year after marrying Mr. Gao, I gained several pounds, and my originally weak body was gradually improving.

Because he worked hard to develop many nutritious and delicious dishes, which greatly stimulated my appetite and strengthened my body.

He studied various recipes, including kidney-tonifying yams, nourishing ribs, and beautifying tomatoes, and improved the processing based on my physical condition.

Because those starches, fats and vitamins can bring a steady stream of energy, making me healthy and beautiful.

I feel happy and understand why you should marry a man who can cook for you.

Because the flesh and blood of men and women requires the sustenance of grains, meat, fruits and vegetables.

When you truly fall in love with someone, you will naturally want to give her the best, and hide all your deep love in every porridge and meal.

You will be afraid that she won’t be able to eat well, and you can’t wait to cook it yourself and bring all the richness and beauty in the world to her.

The temperature of the kitchen determines the temperature of a home to a large extent.

The five flavors of the world are harmonized in that square inch, and the lively and warm aroma is filling your nose. Someone has poured a lot of love into it.

We chopped the sweet and sour dishes carefully on the chopping board, and slowly fried the joys and sorrows in the oil pan.

The long flow of life is actually in these small happiness and joy.

If you know how to cook, when you become a parent, you will know how to make that little body strong and strong; when your parents grow old, you will also know how to use food to soothe their old, weak, and sick injuries. .

In fact, the most natural expression of deep love is just to ask softly: "Are you hungry? How about I cook you a bowl of noodles?"

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Cooking is a life practice.

The foodie who is best at writing articles and poems is undoubtedly Su Dongpo, a talented man from the Song Dynasty.

But what is strange is not the delicacies in those splendid chapters, but the talented hands of the talented man. He can write and cook, and invented a series of delicacies named after "Dongpo". It's great to live a life that is always full and hearty.

Su Shi was demoted three times in his life. Huangzhou, Huizhou, and Danzhou were all barren lands at that time. They were far away from the rivers and lakes. Those who were exiled together with their bodies probably still had their ambitions and ambitions. ***.

However, in his poetry works, there is rarely the melancholy and pessimism of looking around at a loss. Instead, the kind of broad-minded optimism and happy-go-lucky attitude are still alive in the books and have become the comfort of many people in the world.

This should have something to do with his love of eating, knowing how to eat, and being good at making delicious food.

Huangzhou is remote and life is difficult, but Su Shi created a "Dongpo Meat", which is fragrant and beautiful, and has become a good talk together with his poems.

In his later years, he was exiled to Danzhou and invented a Dongpo soup, which was regarded as a classic by later generations.

Not to mention Dongpo elbow, Dongpo tofu and so on.

I guess that when cooking these tempting delicacies with her own hands, Su Zi's heart should be quiet, like water droplets pouring into the sea, calm but boundless.

Because he has seen the tenderness in ordinary life.

Su Zi’s food journey should be a great life practice. Frying, frying and boiling are all tempered, and sour, sweet, bitter and spicy are all the flavors of life. Therefore, he wrote that life is a taste of happiness, and it also understands people. There are joys and sorrows, and the moon waxes and wanes.

Walk all the way and eat all the way. Don’t be afraid of high mountains and high rivers, and don’t be afraid of the evil people’s hearts.

Anyway, there are still hands and a heart, as well as all kinds of delicacies from all over the country. There are scenery everywhere in the world, and there are good friends everywhere in life.

Only in this way can ordinary ingredients be transformed into magic. With a heart and hands that are good at discovering and creating beauty, you can turn what others see as humiliation into poetry and distance.

When you don’t know what to do, you cook. Feed your stomach and your heart will not be empty.

Those who have cried and eaten can walk on, and those who have cried and eaten can walk further.

Because the immortal faith and the immortal dream still shine in the heart.