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Speaking of paying attention to food, I always remember the scene where Grandma Liu ate eggplant in the Grand View Garden.

when granny Liu ate eggplant, she found that it tasted like eggplant but not like eggplant, so it was delicious. So she asked Xifeng how to cook this dish and wanted to learn how to cook it.

Xi-feng replied, "It's not difficult. You peel the fresh eggplant, just clean the meat, cut it into pieces, Queena Ding, fry it with chicken oil, then cut it with chicken breast, fragrant bacteria, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced dried fruits and all kinds of dried fruits into Queena Ding, simmer it with chicken soup, collect the sesame oil, mix it with bad oil, seal it in a porcelain jar, take it out when you want to eat it, and mix it with fried chicken feet. "

I didn't find it difficult to read this description of eggplant's practice before. Later, when I really worked on my own rice, oil and salt, I found that I underestimated the people in a dream of red mansions' attention to food.

As the days go by in a hurry, it's easy to become careless about eating and drinking.

it's ok to eat and drink well slowly, and it's ok to fool around casually. Just like the wanderers who leave home, they are told by their mothers every time on the phone: "Have a good meal, don't always eat casually", just like busy people who always cook a bowl of casual noodles when they get home and have another meal with TV dramas.

if you don't pay attention to food, you will live. Because the attitude towards food is often the attitude towards life.

Looking for fragrance in an empty valley

People who are particular about food also have an attitude towards life. They can find a sense of the timing of the seasons from the festivals of food; From the harmony of five flavors of food, taste the taste of life; More importantly, from eating well, you get the ability to live out the fireworks.

Try to be a person who is particular about food and live a small life.

People who are fastidious about food have a sense of time

Liang Shiqiu said, "Generally, delicious food has a season. If you enjoy it in season, it will be naturally adjusted without overstepping the limit."

China people are in line with the right time and place, relying on the sea to eat the sea, relying on mountains to eat mountains, and paying attention to the right time and place from ingredients to seasoning. Simply eating according to the time is not only a kind of stress, but also a sensitive perception of the season.

Every autumn, the residence of Jiang Kongyin, a Guangzhou gourmet, is very busy, and everyone comes here to eat the "Taishi Snake Soup".

Jiang Kongyin pays attention to the seasonality of ingredients. As the saying goes, "Autumn comes first, three snakes are fat". He uses the fattest snake in autumn to add autumn chrysanthemum to the soup, which leads to the taste of autumn snake. To this end, every summer he will plant "white chrysanthemum", and when the snake is fat in autumn, white chrysanthemum is also in full bloom.

In Jiang Kongyin's mind, the most beautiful moments of food are short-lived and only appear in the most suitable season.

Just like the "dew litchi" he planted, whenever the litchi at home is about to ripen, he takes time. When the sun didn't come out and the dew didn't form, he called his family to pick lychees in the garden.

He said, "Litchi is the best now, otherwise, when the dew hits, the litchi skin will change color, and the litchi will be hurt. And after a cool night, litchi is sweet and crisp. "

Jiang Kongyin is the most time-sensitive gourmet I know. When eating a lychee, everyone pays attention to picking it when the morning dew is born, but it is not formed.

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Liang Wendao said, "Although people have eaten all over the country now, they are more interested in the number of restaurants they have eaten, rather than what this dish is. Is it something to eat this season? "

Globalization and technology make food penetrate the frozen time and space. Off-season food is readily available and convenient. At the same time, it also separates our perception of time series and confuses our feelings about seasons.

But those who pay attention to food unexpectedly retain this sense of time.

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For people who are fastidious about food, there are proper limit

People in China pay attention to a "measure" in everything, neither too much nor too little, and everything is just right.

when it comes to diet, there is also a sense of proportion.

It is written in Lv's Spring and Autumn Annals that the best dishes in the world should be "cooked but not rotten, sweet but not strong, sour but not cool, salty but not reduced, pungent but not strong, light but not thin, fat but not greasy", that is, sweet, sour, spicy and salty, five flavors should be reconciled and measured.

For people who are fastidious about food, proper limit, which pays great attention to taste, is neither too salty nor too light.

I was deeply impressed by an episode in China on the Tip of the Tongue. A Zhi, a Cantonese, is a family of smoked ducks. Cantonese people love to eat sweet food, but it is too greasy, so Ah Zhi accurately grasps the measure of this sweetness. He neutralizes the sweetness with brown sugar, spiced powder, vinegar and salt, so that the salted duck meat will be greasy if it is more, but not if it is less. Everything is just right.

Wang Zengqi said, "A person's taste should be wider and more miscellaneous. Try everything sweet in the south, salty in the north, spicy in the east and sour in the west."

only when you have tasted all the sweet, sour, bitter, spicy and salty things can you know where the best taste is.

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Countless diners who have studied food have refined five flavors into the flavor of life in fireworks, and found the sense of propriety in the ever-changing flavor.

Therefore, the "proper limit" of diet is also like the way of life in China. When ten thousand kinds of flavors are mixed together, each flavor should not be too prominent, and each flavor should be measured, not usurping the host's role and not belittling itself. The same is true of being a man, paying attention to a balance and harmony.

There are many flavors in food, and the word "moderation" is the most difficult to grasp.

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People who are fastidious about food have a sense of life.

I often envy the sense of life of Beijing's "eaters". When I have money, I am really fastidious. I have eaten the imperial palace meals and made a decent speech. When you have no money, you are poor and fastidious, and you also like to eat coarse food in the market. It is the same taste.

what is a sense of life? A sense of life is an attitude, that is, not only paying attention to delicacies and delicacies, but also enjoying clothes and meals, living well and eating clearly, and having a down-to-earth fireworks atmosphere.

After all, life itself is behind everything about eating and drinking.

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A real gourmet is never a luxury eater of delicacies. Those ordinary ingredients can also cook strange dishes, get pleasure from thousands of foods and have the ability to love life.

Wang Zengqi has eaten all kinds of flavors in the north and south of the Yangtze River, and his attention to ingredients can be seen from his works. But the last thing that stayed in my heart was Gaoyou duck eggs; Among the dishes he cooks, people praise home cooking, mixing mustard, cooking dried silk and burning radishes ...

He eats delicacies, but he won't become a slave to food, become a glutton, break the fireworks in his heart and leave the most practical life.

As he said, "Eating in all directions, fireworks on earth, and eating is the most real life."

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Some people pay attention to food, tend to be superficial and superficial, and pursue all kinds of extravagant and exotic practices. It is not impossible, but it is easy to get rid of life itself.

Wang Zengqi once joked: "Instead of tracing back to how the tattooed Vietnamese eat clams, it is better to steam a bowl of dried mushrooms and drink two glasses of yellow wine."

To pay attention to food is to pay attention to life, because food is seen in the eyes, tasted in the mouth, real and full of worldly fireworks.

this is the simplest ability and the most exquisite attitude.

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