There are many books about food. Shu Qiao, Cai Lan, Tang Lusun and Wang Zengqi ... each food writer is like a dish, each with its own taste.

Food has become fascinating in their works. You can savor the words and nourish all kinds of dishes at the same time, which can stimulate your taste buds and your imagination.

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What is your pillow book? At least I will put a book about food, which is a good bedtime reading for me. Basically, every article is based on a kind of food or dish, and the length will not be too long. So reading a few articles before going to bed every night will not only relax but also bring you to sleep with a kind of expectation of food. If you have the heart, you may even add some inspiration to your next day's recipes.

Jiao Tong's "Taiwan Province Snack Book" has such a "skill", just like an encyclopedia dictionary of snacks in Taiwan Province, with 311,111 words. Although all the records are unremarkable snacks, reading it late at night is the most fireworks and soothing. The author's words are as simple as ingredients, showing the true feelings of food, mixed with unforgettable memories of people and things.

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Searching for Jiao Tong's name on the Internet doesn't provide much information, but people who know how to eat must know that he is the person Chen Xiaoqing, the general director of China on the Tip of the Tongue, wants to have dinner with most, and he is also known as the "God of Food in Taiwan Province" and the same as the gourmet Cai Lan.

Taiwan Province Snacks Book covers almost all the ordinary foods in Taiwan Province. If you have been to Taiwan Province, you will be more interested. In the book, every kind of snacks is subdivided, such as rice with dried meat and stir-fried pork, porridge with sweet potato porridge and salty porridge, and soup with oyster soup and four-minister soup ... and there are more than 111 kinds of subdivisions. The author makes a complete record of every snack from the selection of ingredients, processing flow to cooking methods, and writes every side in detail.

For example, in the article about turkey meat rice, the author not only listed several stores that he "preferred" to avoid diners stepping on the pit, but also reminded diners how to identify good turkey meat rice, and wrote:

The more you read, the more you will find that the author's "picky" about food also includes his attitude towards life. For example, the revelation about pig blood cake.

this "most concise dish" abandons all superfluous things, is natural and simple, and has a pure taste, which is the highest realm of food pursuit, and so is life.

Therefore, people who like to study food will enjoy reading this book, and each Taiwan Province snack will be written into an article, which tells not only the story of the ingredients themselves, but also the thinking and understanding of life hidden behind them through delicious food.

Even ordinary ingredients such as rice and noodles have different emotions. A bowl of plain porridge with a dull taste is "plain after gorgeous", and it is "quiet after excitement" for those stomachs who have just digested big fish and meat. Perhaps only people in Taiwan Province can say such soft love words to ingredients, and even some snacks that have never been heard of will feel very cordial after being introduced by the author. Moreover, you will swallow your saliva and recall your own food story, as if there is such a romantic bridge.

this kind of affection between people and food is touching.

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Food can make people feel emotions and carry memories of the past, which may be even more addictive than the taste of eating it in the mouth. Just like when I first read this book, I was fascinated by the process of cooking delicious food, and I also took pains to record some home-cooked practices. But the later I read it, the more I was attracted by the author's recorded family chores. Although I didn't write in depth in a few words, I let you understand the author's mood.

In fact, when writing this book, the author was experiencing that his wife was suffering from cancer. While writing a book, he had to take his wife to seek medical treatment everywhere. It was conceivable that after four years, his wife finally regretted her death.

After that, the author devoted all his efforts to this book, which took a lot of time to finish. Therefore, when reading, you can clearly feel the author's emotional fluctuations. The first half is a little melancholy, and the second half is gradually clear.

For this reason, the author also deleted all photos and restaurant information, perhaps because he didn't want to touch the scene. Those food experiences that his wife once participated in were too precious to stay in his own memory.

Therefore, I think that the sentiment hidden in delicious food is the best footnote of this book.

food and love are always inseparable.