The novella Gourmet is Lu's masterpiece, published in the first issue of Harvest 1983. The story tells about the ups and downs of revolutionary cadre and capitalist Zhu for more than forty years, analyzes the social life of China for nearly half a century from a special angle, and reflects the changes of the times and people's values.

The 1980s was an era of personality exploration, and literature tried to find back the long-lost humanity while trying to find back the personality. The discussion of "man" in the novel got rid of the political barrier similar to "new socialism" and began to pay attention to universal human nature.

People can have no interest in all kinds of things, but they can't have no interest in eating. They must eat to survive and enjoy. Eating is different from buying clothes. You can wear one for three years, but you can't wear one meal for three years. If you eat it today, you will want to eat something different tomorrow. If human beings want to survive, eating must develop. No matter which country it is, everyone cares about eating.

This book tells how Suzhou cuisine "died". The change of little people's fate ...