how to become a gourmet
To be a gourmet, you need to have a certain economic ability first, and then you must be well-known among diners, and you can influence diners through his choice and recommendation. "In addition to knowing how to eat, he should also know how to cook delicious food to meet 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 necessary quality for a real gourmet. Because food is comprehensive, the raw materials and the flavors of the dishes made in different places are different, so gourmets need to have a deep study on the eating methods, cooking skills and even sauce making 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 will be better." In addition, gourmets usually pay great attention to the overall look and feel and effect brought by food, so they will spend a lot of thoughts on furnishings and utensils.
Being poor can't prevent you from becoming a gourmet, provided that you are well versed in food culture and can even appreciate its original unique taste from ordinary food.
besides eating, gourmets can 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 techniques. "So it is best to be a chef, because he is in addition to? Know it? , still need? 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, and "everything is born of it and the five elements are made of it". Man and human beings are just a level evolved from the operating law of Tao. "There are four in the domain, and one is inhabited. Man's law is based on land, land is based on heaven, heaven is based on Taoism, and Taoism is natural. " All the existence and laws of human beings and human society are the embodiment of Tao. If we want to "be natural", we need people to be natural. People's life process needs material exchange with nature through eating activities. Therefore, people's ways of survival, health preservation, fitness, diet and cooking are inseparable from Taoism and nature.
Fortunately, the sages of past dynasties have long understood the way of food, and made incisive comments on dealing with the relationship between food and nature, food and society, food and health, food and cooking, food and art, showing the scientific and advanced thinking of food, emphasizing that the way of food is natural, keeping healthy and treating food is the same thing, living and enjoying harmony, and putting humanistic education in food. Under the guidance of advanced dietary ideas, a scientific dietary structure has emerged in China: nourishing, helping, benefiting and filling-five grains for nourishing, five fruits for helping, five livestock for benefiting and five vegetables for filling. It is with these three vegetarian and one meat staple foods and non-staple foods that we can make meals, and the diet of China people was reported in the American Health magazine that "the diet of China people is the most beneficial to health in the world".
a gourmet is a taster. The core of good food is taste. Yi Yin said, "The taste is subtle, and the mouth can speak." "The Doctrine of the Mean" also says, "People have to eat and drink, and seldom know the taste". Xiaoyu, the chef of Yuan Mei, once lamented: "It is difficult to know your bosom friend, but it is especially difficult to know your taste"! China cuisine pays attention to harmony and sweetness. 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 principles of "harmony" are the sum of meat and vegetables, the sum of sex and taste, and the sum of seasons. The delicious food that can reconcile many tastes is "sweetness", that is, "sweetness and harmony" as mentioned in the Book of Rites. The "Tao" of the way of food is embodied in the way of taste. Knowing this means knowing the taste.
prerequisites
everyone eats food every day, but not everyone can become a gourmet. Even if you eat abalone wings and stomach every day, you will only become a glutton, not a glutton.
to be a gourmet, you must have several basic conditions. You have to have some money first. The amount of money must at least exceed the needs of the stomach. If you only have to eat some side dishes and buy some noodles for your living expenses, and only occasionally go to restaurants and restaurants to eat according to the year and the month, I'm afraid being a gourmet is just a pipe dream. Second, you should have a lot of opportunities to eat, or live in a place where the catering industry is prosperous, or travel around to taste delicious food, or hire a chef with high cooking skills. Isn't it empty talk to be a gourmet if you have never been out of the house all your life and eat and drink with very monotonous foods every day? Third, we must have a high level of food culture, know some cooking skills, and know that "the flat seal is soft and crisp, and the sour and salty are distinguished" (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 to become a gourmet?
people who meet the above three basic conditions are likely to become gourmets. But that doesn't mean that qualified people can become gourmets. To turn "possibility" into "necessity" requires a process, a certain period of accumulation, a leap from quantity to quality, and a deep understanding of the way of food by the parties concerned.
according to my observation, at present and in the future, the people who are most qualified and likely to become gourmets are gourmet creators and chefs who are engaged in cooking, restaurant managers, scholars, writers and artists who are concerned about the development of food culture, and all kinds of "delicious mouths" in society who take food enjoyment as their life pleasure. "Gourmet" 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 high in name but not in fact.