Life is good if you enjoy it. The enjoyment here is not just lavish drinking and drinking, and many people who have fun day and night are just more empty in the end. Those who can live a life, even if they are poor, can always live a poetic, warm and interesting life.

Lin Yutang is undoubtedly a representative of social life. He loves fishing, drinking tea and eating delicious food. Although he has no capacity for alcohol, he likes to drink. The Art of Living, written by Mr. Wang, is a popular best seller in the United States. Some readers even commented: After reading this book, I want to go to Chinatown and take a deep bow to everyone I meet in China.

Once, Lin Yutang and his wife Liao Cuifeng went home and found the cook and the washerwoman sleeping in the master's bedroom. Liao Cuifeng flew into a rage, but he was merciful and interceded for them on the grounds that the eight-treasure duck cooked by the cook was really delicious.

Do you think it's funny? Under such circumstances, it's incredible that what comes to the mind of the great writer is the taste of braised eight-treasure duck.

Lin Yutang not only loves to eat, but also likes to cook. Whenever he is free, he runs to the kitchen in person, laying out all kinds of delicious food. When living in Shanghai, Lin Xiangru, a young girl, celebrated her 7th birthday. She got up early in the morning and ran to the kitchen. She wrote her daughter's name on the cake with icing. She was as happy as a child.

not only that, he also likes to make peanut candy with his two grandchildren. In the process of hands-on production, experience the more advanced enjoyment brought by food.

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Eating is also a profound knowledge, and as Lin Yutang said, it is the art of life. As an authentic foodie, you need not only the pleasure of satisfying the taste buds, but also the wisdom far higher than the enjoyment in your mouth.

Just like when we watch A Dream of Red Mansions, the names of all kinds of delicious food can dazzle people. What bad goose web duck letter, steamed stuffed bun with bean curd skin, Fenglu tea, yam cake stuffed with jujube paste, stewed elbow with ham, pigeon eggs, pheasant soup, steamed lamb with milk, Tu Su wine, acacia soup, auspicious fruit, wishful cake, fresh ham bamboo shoot soup, chicken marrow bamboo shoots, wind-cured civets, moon cakes stuffed with melon seeds and pine nuts, and so on.

What is more important behind these names, not only the taste on the tip of the tongue, but also its production method, labor, wisdom and culture. Now, just pick out one or two to spread out. For example, how to make this cold fragrant pill that Xue Baochai eats:

White peony flower, white lotus flower, white hibiscus flower and Bai Meihua stamen need to be grinded into powder, and then the seasonal rain of the same year, dew of Bailu, frost of first frost and snow of light snow need to be blended with honey and sugar to make Jackie Chan Eye Pill, which is buried in a vessel. At the time of onset, take one pill with the decoction of Cortex Phellodendri 12 points.

There is another eggplant that people have always talked about. As a signature dish that people make fun of Granny Liu, this eggplant is really famous:

Peel the fresh eggplant, cut it into nails, fry it in chicken oil, and then cut it into nails with chicken breast meat, fragrant bacteria, new bamboo shoots, mushrooms, spiced dried fruits and all kinds of dried fruits.

And a delicious food like this can only be tasted once, or fully eaten, or enjoyed all day, or even eaten at any time. If it is only used to fill the stomach and satisfy the taste buds, it will not be enough to achieve great pleasure brought by the delicious food. Only by going deep into it, understanding it and feeling it can you be called eaten.

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The more people who can live, the more they can eat. Jonathan Lee's life is ups and downs. From the beginning, he wrote about vigorous youth, exciting hormones, love and friendship, trivial, empty and buzzing from the perspective of a nobody. Later, when he crossed the hill, things became clear and everything that should be put down was put down. How many miles to walk and how many mountains to climb before you can become the old Li in the kitchen.

A big brother became a craftsman, and his body smelled of fireworks. Lao Li fell in love with cooking.

It is said that after Jonathan Lee became a bachelor, he was hungry one night, but refused to grab something to eat. He took a long time to make a braised pork rice, and he poured a glass of red wine. At this time, people were all sad.

Big Brother likes to cook in the middle of the night. From eleven o'clock in the evening until the early morning, the corridor smells of fireworks. He even changed his swimming pool into a kitchen. Moreover, his home in Beijing is full of ingredients he bought from all over the world, and there are a lot of cooking videos on his computer. He has also learned a lot from cooking:

If being together is painful, it is better to let go and find new happiness. Only those who eat together can love each other. If one person likes spicy food and another person prefers dessert, it can't be harmonious. Life partner is like looking for delicious food. When the fate comes, the dish that suits you will appear. You can't eat hot tofu if you are impatient.

On the contrary, some men think that it is useless in the kitchen and should spend more time on their careers, but this old Li who knows life with fireworks is obviously much cuter than that big brother in the music world.

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In the history of China, there were many veritable foodies. The famous Su Shi has been demoted many times in his life, but everywhere he goes, he always looks for delicious food worth eating first. The so-called sadness is small, but it hurts his stomach.

Since the Song Dynasty, various dishes named after Su Shi's "Dongpo" have appeared one after another. It is said that there are as many as 66 kinds, such as Dongpo meat, Dongpo cake, Dongpo elbow, Dongpo soup, Dongpo fish, Dongpo tofu and so on. Among them, Dongpo meat is the most well-known one, and it is also a delicious food developed by Su Shi himself.

In the sequel to Dongpo (Volume 1), there is a poem "Ode to Pork": Wash the pan, lack of water, and the firewood can't afford to smoke. Don't rush it when it is ripe, it will be beautiful when the fire is full. Huangzhou good pork, the price is as cheap as dirt. You refuse to eat, and the poor don't understand cooking. Get up in the morning and play two bowls, so full that you can't worry about it.

What is described in it is the detailed explanation of Su Shi's cooking method of Dongpo meat.

Lu Xun, another modern writer, is undoubtedly a foodie. Of course, like many other foodies, his cooking requirements for dishes are also very high. Take the fried kidney flower as an example, he wrote:

When frying, two pots should be used, one pot should be heated with lard and peanut oil, and the other pot should be boiled with water for blanching kidney flower; When the oil temperature rises to the highest, immediately stir-fry the kidney flower, then put it in a colander, leave a little base oil to stir-fry some green garlic sprouts and fungus, then add the kidney, hook it up, add Jiang Shui, cooking wine, etc. The waist of this pot is golden red and crisp, which is very suitable for drinking.

When Lu Xun worked in the Ministry of Education, whenever he got paid, he would go to a French bakery and spend 1 silver dollar to buy cream cakes. At that time, a female yarn factory worker earned 5 silver dollars a month, which was enough for a family, but this one frequently used 1 silver dollar to solve her greed.

once, a friend gave Lu Xun a packet of candy. Lu Xun opened it and tasted it. It was cool and delicate. It was really a good thing, so he couldn't stop the brakes and ate a lot in a row. His friend told him that this sugar is made of persimmon cream. If you have a sore on your mouth, just put it on. When Lu Xun heard about the efficacy, he suddenly regretted it. He had to put away the rest and prepare it for use when his mouth was sore.

but after putting it away, all he could think about was the candy. Finally, I couldn't help it, got up and ate most of it. I comforted myself while eating: because I suddenly thought that there were not many sores on my mouth, so I might as well eat some while it was fresh. Unexpectedly, I ate more than half of it.

this way of comforting yourself is really unbearable.

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Everyone loves food, and few people can resist the temptation to eat it. From the birth of mammals, they can automatically suck, carnivores kill each other, and now the developed food system. Eating, to a great extent, has become a valuable culture and an important pleasure in life.

In addition to eating itself, the human touch contained in it has become an invisible tie, pulling and pulling, breaking the ties and winding the spiritual world of human beings.

Some people get pleasure from making delicious food; Some people enjoy the beauty of the second after food enters their mouths; Someone is hungry, and a steamed bread can reinvigorate the spirit; Some people eat their bellies because of their inner hunger and thirst.

A restaurant that friends go to as usual when they get together; The taste of memories that can no longer be smelled because of lovelorn love; A brand of instant noodles that I ate every day when I was down and out, now I will vomit when I smell it; Every time I leave home, my mother has to cook that signature dish.

Actually, knowing a person doesn't mean anything. People will change. Today he likes pineapples, and tomorrow he can like something else. Takeshi Kaneshiro, who is obsessed with canned pineapples, can't help but know these truths, but he still stubbornly bought 3 cans of expired canned pineapples and ate them all.

a person who eats words is also an idiot, and who knows all the flavors.

It's like the documentary China on the Tip of the Tongue: the smell of mountains, the smell of wind and the smell of sunshine are also the smell of time and human feelings. These smells have been mixed with feelings and beliefs of hometown, folks, nostalgia, thrift, perseverance and so on for a long time, before they are on the tip of the tongue and on the heart.

No matter how far you walk, in people's minds, only the taste of hometown is familiar and stubborn. It is like a taste positioning system, one end of which is locked in a strange place thousands of miles away, while the other end is always tied up with the hometown in everyone's specific memory.