As soon as the news came out, Cai Lan's book "Learn from a Cut" sold out of stock directly, and the sales volume soared. So I followed the trend and read this book online. Unfortunately, at present, we can only read the online electronic version, so we can only browse the catalogue quickly.
Fortunately, now, you can read physical books.
Who's Cai Lan?
194 1 Yu 18 was born in Cai Lan. His ancestral home is Chaozhou, Guangdong. He is a film producer, gourmet, columnist, film presenter and businessman. He even has a reputation as a god of food in Hong Kong. China on the Tip of the Tongue, a food documentary, invited Cai Lan to be the general consultant of the program.
Reading "Eat a Ceremony, Live a Joy" can always see the transparency of an old man who has experienced years. The book says, "The more we know how to eat, the more we know how to live."
Therefore, every chapter of Eat a Ceremony and Live a Happiness is about eating, but every chapter is about life.
Life is always inseparable from childhood, and eating is always inseparable from "the taste of childhood."
In many books about eating and food, it is always inseparable from memories and food in memories, and so is the book "Eat a sense of ceremony and live happily".
The first chapter is about "one billion". Cai Lan Jr. and his parents moved to a new home. There is a durian tree in the yard of that new home. Durian is not mature yet, so the tree was cut down and used as a Grenade for their children to play with. It is also mentioned that a group of children eat durian under the tree and listen to their father's interesting story about durian.
Cai Lan said: "The likes and dislikes of food are very subjective. It is absolutely impossible to unify which is the best and which is the worst. It depends on where you come from and what you eat. "
He concluded: "Eating is a gene".
I have never been to too many places, so this can only be very reasonable from the bottom of my heart, but I don't know if it is correct. After all, the people around me and I have roughly the same taste. The only evidence is an answer I saw on Zhihu:
One interviewee said: After he went abroad to France, he ate foie gras and steak at first, but two months later, he began to miss Chinese food and rice crazily. He thought this was the charm of Chinese food, but his French friend had the same experience when he came to China.
At first, the French friend wanted to treat his old friend well, so he came to China for a month. He took people to eat local specialties every day, until a month later, his French friend said with a sad face, Friend, can we eat hamburgers today?
It can be seen that food is indeed a matter of opinion, and it does have genes.
When reading the catalogue of "Eat a Ceremony, Live a Happy Life", I especially want to read "Try to eat a menu with the garden".
I have been fascinated by Yuan Mei's "Garden Food" for a long time, and I especially want to see how the so-called gourmet Cai Lan "tried".
Therefore, this chapter is particularly short. Almost one day, Cai Lan wanted to try the Suiyuan menu on a whim, so he started to cook it, and it tasted good. This tasting dish later became a dish when he had dinner with his friends.
At first, I felt a little disappointed, but when I think about it, isn't this the meaning of tasting?
Life, isn't it
In the book "Eating Ceremony, Living Joy", the last episode is about life, and the title is "This Cup of Life".
In this episode, Cai Lan talked about "health", and two sentences left a deep impression on me:
"Q:' As a gourmet, do you care about health?'
A: "A wise man once said that as a gourmet, you should start by sacrificing a little health." "
This is Cai Lan's attitude towards life and Cai Lan's attitude towards food.
The book Eat a Ceremony, Live a Happy Life not only pays attention to Cai Lan and his food, but also his life.