The gourmet in Song Dynasty was Su Shi.

Su Shi (January 8, 137—August 24, 111), born in Luancheng, Hebei Province, was a famous writer, calligrapher, painter and gourmet in the Northern Song Dynasty. He is open-minded by nature, frank and sincere, and has won the Taoist style. Good friends, good food, create a lot of fine food, good tea, but also elegant and good travel.

Su Shi has experienced numerous ups and downs in his life, but this has not affected his love for food, and it is good for his creation. Dongpo meat, a dish stewed with thin-skinned tender meat and famous wine, is the best evidence that Su Shi is good at creating delicious food. "Slow fire, less water, it is beautiful when it is in the heat" is the secret of Dongpo cooking his Dongpo meat. Dongpo meat, with bright red color, strong flavor and mellow juice, crisp and rotten but not broken in shape, fragrant and glutinous but not greasy in mouth, is really fragrant and drooling, but fascinating.

Su Shi's early experience:

Su Shi was born in Meishan, Yu Mei, on December 19th (January 8th, 137), the third year of Jing You in Song Renzong, after Su Weidao, the minister of the early Tang Dynasty. Su Shi's grandfather is Su Xu, with the word Zhong Xian, and his grandmother Shi Shi. Su Shi's father, Su Xun, is the "Su Laoquan" mentioned in San Zi Jing. Su Xun worked hard, though late. Su Shi's name "Shi" originally meant the handrail in front of the car, which means it is indispensable to help the poor from obscurity. Su Shi's natural disposition is open-minded, he is frank and sincere, and he has won the Taoist style.

Good friends, good food, creating many fine food, good tea, and elegant travel in the mountains. In the first year of Jiayou (156), Su Shi left Sichuan for Beijing for the first time to take the imperial examination in the imperial court. Su Xun took 21-year-old Su Shi and 19-year-old Su Zhe from a remote area of Xishu, down the river to the east, and went to Beijing to take the exam in the second year of Jiayou (157).