About Foodie
Eating is often seen as a very vulgar thing. If a person especially likes to eat and thinks about eating all day, it is inevitable that people around him will say that he is a "foodie", with a little joke and some irony.
However, things have changed, in recent years, food programs on television have become popular, coupled with the strong vitality of online language, "foodies" have turned around gorgeously overnight, becoming a buzzword for friends who love food and understand life to laugh at themselves or call each other, indicating a warm and casual attitude towards life.
In fact, the matter of "eating" is originally not bad, and paying attention to diet is an important part of a splendid civilization, and it is the reverence and cherishing given by nature. Moreover, the days are long, the moisturizer is silent, and eating is also integrated into our customs and culture.
Eating, for us, is far more than just hunger, but in words and deeds, about etiquette, almost faith.
The custom of eating is the foundation of all civilizations, and it is the most tenacious and the most solid. It dissolves in people's bones, forms a nation's unique spirit, and expresses the beauty, joy and uniqueness of a place's life.
About the Dictionary
This book is about eating food, originally intended to pile up pieces, categories, so borrowed the name of "dictionary" - there are words, a slight explanation, talk about how to eat, but also said some applause, and even for the "foodies" to find the taste and the back of the book with an index.
But to be precise, this is not a "dictionary" in the usual sense, it just uses a short article to describe the hundred or so most grounded foods in the land of China, as well as the stories of experiencing these true tastes.
Although the arrangement borrows from the form of the dictionary, it does not dare to make any definition, but only uses the entry as a clue to connect all kinds of food and even characters, shops, palms, etc. related to the north and south of the river, and uses more than a thousand words to show the different meanings and simple emotions in it.
In addition, since each article is not limited to the kind of food involved in the topic, but also to others, there are several "prompt words" under each topic, which are indexed to make it easier for you to find the topic of interest.
In general, dictionaries are used to look them up, and few people read them in order from the beginning to the end. Of course, this book can also be read like this - turn to the table of contents to the page you are interested in and taste your good one. However, I would like to remind you that in fact, reading it this way may miss some interesting "taste".
The order of entries in this book is not based on order or strokes, but rather "ulterior motives".
For example, the "eat at home" part takes into account the combination of meat and vegetarian, also takes into account the compatibility of north and south, and also conforms to the four seasons;
The family eats comfortably
The food at home may not be expensive, but it is eaten safely and comfortably. That mellow home flavor, soaked into the bones, makes people's hearts warm.
The "street eating" part roughly follows the order of morning and dusk of breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and supper;
Eat casually on the street
Plain street food, full of unique charm. Even if you have tasted it a thousand times, it will make people worry about it.
The part of "eating in the restaurant" imitates the order of serving at the banquet, roughly paying attention to the order of hot soups of cold dishes, and so on.
Restaurant to eat a famous
Going to the restaurant to eat is a fine, the picture is a famous. There are also centuries-old legends and famous horn anecdotes in those old brands, which add some special flavors to the plate.
