When I was very young, I often went grocery shopping with my grandmother.
This old lady, who has cooked all her life, will always consciously teach me to distinguish the freshness of pork, the old or tender eggplant, whether the green vegetables are pesticided...
When I got home, Grandma gave me a small chair and sat me down, helping her peel the beans and pick vegetables and do the little things she could.
At that time, I was ignorantly repeating these simple labors, but I did not understand that my grandmother was teaching me to cook, to teach me the most ordinary but also extraordinary things in my life.
Now that I'm older, walking alone through the fresh area of the supermarket, I always feel that my steps are light and joyful.
When I saw the exquisite and beautiful cups, plates and bowls, I couldn't help but want to take them all home.
When you are unhappy, make a good meal and eat it, and you will no longer be afraid of the wind and rain.
It turns out that chai rice oil and salt is also a kind of growth and practice.
Because food contains thousands of worlds, and cooking also hides thousands of kinds of dry things.
So you must learn to cook, not only to fill your stomach, but also to heal yourself with food and energy in this world where gentleness and cruelty coexist.
Cooking is a survival skill
There is a cancer mother Qianhui, after risking her life to give birth to her daughter Ah Hua, unfortunately the cancer cells spread, and her life entered the countdown.
This strong and brave mother wants to leave her daughter with a lifelong legacy before she dies.
Thinking about it, Chie decides to teach her daughter to cook, because learning to cook means the formation of survival ability.
On Ah Hua's 4th birthday, her mother gave an apron as a birthday gift and began to consciously train her to cut vegetables and cook soup.
So, the little girl who was not yet high on the stove stepped on the small stool, trembled and picked up the kitchen knife and spatula, and used her young little hands to fiddle with the pots and pans, blending the oil, salt and vinegar.
Other children are still tired of spoiling in the arms of their parents, and Ah Hua has tied an apron to control the family's stomach and mood.
The mother is naturally distressed, but she can only make up her mind and push her daughter into the grinding and testing of life.
She said: "Ah Hua, cooking is closely related to life, I want to teach you how to take a kitchen knife, how to do housework."
Learning can be placed in the second place, as long as you are healthy and able to support yourself, you can live no matter where you go or what you do in the future. ”
We were adored, and when we asked further, we learned that the master and mother were mainly engaged in aesthetic research and had a lot of experience in food.
She said a word to us at the time that is still unforgettable.
She said: "Women cook, not to please their husbands and families, but to make life more beautiful. Because cooking itself is an art. ”
People who can express their aesthetic tastes and exquisite thoughts with a meal naturally know how to withdraw from the pressure of life and live a tasteful life.
You who can cook, when you become a parent, you know how to cultivate that small body into a strong bone; when your parents are old, you also know how to use diet to soothe their old and weak injuries.
In fact, the most natural expression of love to the depths is to ask softly: "Are you hungry?" Or shall I cook you a bowl of noodles? ”
Cooking is a life practice
The foodie who can write articles and poems the most is Su Dongpo, a talented son of the Song Dynasty.
But what is strange is not the delicacies in those splendid chapters, but a pair of clever hands of the talented man, Wen Neng ti pen wu can cook, invented a series of cuisine named after "Dongpo", eat happily, live, and always live.
In Su Shi's life, he encountered three times of depreciation, Huangzhou, Huizhou, danzhou, were all barren places at that time, far away from the rivers and lakes, along with the physical banishment, probably with that ambition and passion.
However, in his poetry works, there is very little melancholy and pessimism in the four sides, but instead it is the kind of open-minded optimism and peace of mind that has been alive in the books to this day, and has become a comfort for many fallen people at the end of the world.
This should be related to his love of food, ability to eat and good at making food.
Huangzhou is remote and has a hard life, but Su Shi has made up a "Dongpo meat", which is fragrant and beautiful, and is passed on as a beautiful talk with the poem.
In his later years, he lived in Danzhou and invented a Dongpo soup, which was regarded as a classic by later generations.
Not to mention Dongpo elbow Dongpo tofu and so on.
I suspect that when cooking these tempting delicacies by hand, Suzi's heart should be quiet, like a drop of water pouring into the sea, calm but generous.
Because, he has seen the tenderness of ordinary life.
Suzi's food journey, should be a great life practice ah, fried fried cooking is a thousand hammers and hundreds of refinements, sour, sweet and bitter spicy is a hundred flavors of life, so write out that life has a taste is qing huan, but also understand that people have sorrow and joy, the moon has yin and sunny round lack.
Walk all the way, eat all the way, not afraid of mountains and rivers, and not afraid of people's hearts and evil.
Anyway, there is a pair of hands and a heart, as well as all kinds of delicacies in the north and south of the river, the world is full of scenery, and life is everywhere.
In this way, ordinary ingredients can be turned into magic.
With a heart and hand that is good at discovering beauty and creating beauty, the care in the eyes of others will be lived into poetry and distant places.
When you don't know what to do, you cook.
Feed your stomach, and your heart will not be empty.
People who have eaten in tears can go down, and those who have cooked with tears can go farther.
Because the unquenchable faith and the immortal dream still shine in the heart.
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