Jiang Yun's "Northern Kitchen" tells the history of home cooking

On October 23, the "Want to Write a History of Food - Jiang Yun's "Northern Kitchen" New Book Sharing Meeting" jointly sponsored by Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House and One Way Space was held in Beijing. Di An, Li Weichang, and the author Jiang Yun shared and exchanged views with readers around the book.

In "The Kitchen of the North", Jiang Yun uses a non-fiction approach to tell the story of three periods of grandmother, mother and Jiang Yun's own chef. This is a history of personal growth and family roots, but also a social history; it is a family cooking history, and it is also a brief history of women for a hundred years. The individual fate and collective memory that are drawn out of food have transcended food itself, and time here takes on a long and gentle appearance. Jiang Yun uses the ink thread of justice and conscience to calibrate the complicated human and social changes, and private experience, major events of the times, material upheavals, and psychological insanities all pour in through small sections of kitchen and food.

Participants believe that "Northern Kitchen" records the relationship between women and the kitchen, and writes about the advance and retreat, "departure" and "keeping" of women in the kitchen. The three generations of the family have used the kitchen as a position to build a silent and gentle matrilineal chain to ensure that "love" is passed on completely and purely without loss. The work is about eating and drinking, which ultimately points to the emotions between people.

Jiang Yun shared her creative motivations and writing experience. She said that her mother's illness and death had a profound impact on her, giving her a great sense of anxiety and urgency about time, so that she wanted to record her life in time. The variety of food, like the various conditions of life, has a strange sense of destiny, and the "history of food" may be the most vivid and unforgettable memory. She hopes to write a history of food and leave a "taste memory" for a certain piece of history. (Northern Luo)

【Source: Literature and Art Daily】

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