Su Shi tasted the food: Dongpo soup, Dongpo cake.
1, Dong Po soup
Dong Po soup is a colorful and flavorful food, refers to a kind of vegetable soup cooked by Su Shi. Dongpo soup "cited:" Dongpo soup, cover Dongpo Jushi cooked vegetable soup also. Do not use fish and meat five flavors, there is a natural sweetness. Its method to woad if cranberries if turnip if chestnut, are rubbed and washed a number of times, go to the hard juice, with a little oil coated cauldron rim and a fine bowl in the vegetable soup, into the raw rice for grits."
2, Dongpo cake
Dongpo cake, also known as hollow cake, lasagna, named in honor of Su Dongpo, is one of the characteristics of the traditional cuisine in Hubei. The origin of the name "Dongpo Cake" is full of humanistic colors. Legend has it that Su Dongpo was relegated to Dan County, Hainan (now Danzhou, Hainan), there is an old widowed crone selling ring cake, her craft is good, high quality ring cake, but because the store is remote, unknown business has been bad. The old woman learned that Su Dongpo was a famous writer, so she asked him to compose a poem for the store.
Su Dongpo felt pity for her poor life, and the ring cake craft is really good, so he wrote a poem, just a few lines, sketched out the ring cake uniform fine, colorful, crispy features and the image of a beauty ring hairpin. The crone will be hanging high on the door of this poem, really customers, business is booming, and then the local people to commemorate Su Dongpo, the name of the "Dongpo cake", and in Danzhou spread today.
Su Shi in the end how much will eat
In his poems there are dozens of capital and food related. And not only like to eat food, but also like to create and invent food. When Su Dongpo went to Huangzhou, he found that the pork there was very cheap, so he wrote "Ode to Pork": "Clean wash pan, less water, firewood fomentation flames can not. To wait for him to cook himself, do not rush him, when the fire is enough he is beautiful. Huangzhou good pork, cheap as dirt. The expensive people won't eat it, and the poor people don't know how to cook it. I'll get up in the morning and play two bowls of it, and I'll have enough for my own family."
In addition to liking pork, Su Dongpo also likes to eat fish, at that time Su Dongpo in order to let the people under the rule of the people taste the freshness of the fish, Su Dongpo self-invented the "Dongpo fish", and also put the practice of writing into the poem. In the poem "Fish Barbarians", Su Dongpo wrote, "It is easy to break water to get pomfrets and carps, as easy as picking up the road. Broken kettle without salt, snow scale pen green vegetables." Visible Su Dongpo is not a simple foodie, or a self-feeding foodie, if it is now not open a food column, it is really a waste!
Refer to Baidu Encyclopedia-Su Shi