#以书之名 #
Although I changed my dorm room once or twice in high school, the magic is that our dorm has always maintained the tradition of eating together every one or two weeks, and our dinner is usually shared by each person with a two-dish dish, most of which we make ourselves. There are eight or nine people in the dormitory, and each person will always end up with a sumptuous feast.
Because we will inform our roommates in advance of the dishes they bring, so the dishes are generally not repeated, I am more impressed by the dishes are: soaked claws, cola chicken wings, pineapple grunt ribs, potato stew, sushi, egg tarts, chicken thigh mushroom fried meat, fried fish, etc., sometimes on the special day of the birthday, but also prepare cakes, drinks, etc. Looking back on it now, I gradually realize that these foods carried the time of my three years of high school full of laughter and laughter; it was these foods that connected us and brought us closer to each other.
In fact, Chinese often put their emotions on food, we meet and greet people will ask "have you eaten" or "do you want to eat", when eating, the elders often say "eat more, come to eat this", "drink some soup" to show their care. The concept of "food for the people" permeates our daily lives, and food for us has long exceeded its own meaning.
As a Chinese who treats eating as an important event in life, I have a strong sense of resonance after seeing the book Shark Fin and Pepper.
This is a story about Chinese food and culture from a foreigner's perspective, and can also be said to be a British girl's adventure experience of Chinese cuisine. The author Fu Xia came to Sichuan, China in the early 1990s and has been inextricably linked to this gastronomic powerhouse ever since.
Chen Xiaoqing, the general director of "China on the Tip of the Tongue", once commented that "this award-winning "Shark Fin and Pepper" is undoubtedly the most vivid and interesting and accurate book written by many foreigners about Chinese food", which I really agree with, especially when I saw Fuxia describing food, it was very appropriate, and I silently held my saliva several times, and then ran to eat boiled meat slices at noon that day.
There is also a description of a fish killing scene in the text is also very delicate and vivid, so I can't help but go back and watch the opening of the "Eating Men and Women" movie again.
At first, I was attracted to the book because of the description of food, but later I was moved by some fragments of the text, such as the Chengdu Vegetable Market in the 1990s:
Life here seems to be a sweet and lazy dream, everything seems to be slow and leisurely, full of fatigue and full of life.
The history teacher in her freshman year was a typical Chengdu person, and she said that every time she returned to Chengdu, she was eating, and people's lives were very slow, and sometimes the time spent playing mahjong for an afternoon passed.
The author also seems to have a special preference for Chengdu, the article not only introduces Sichuan cuisine, but also tells the development and changes of the city of Chengdu, in the past there would be a lot of goods on the streets, umbrella sellers, flowers sellers, water delivery, umbrella repair fans, and now with the development of the economy these professions have long been no longer needed by people.
I remember when I was a child, there were still many such small vendors on the street, there were shoes repairers and selling all kinds of snacks, the most impressive was to sell "rice sticks" (I literally translated it from the dialect), a cart had a machine similar to making popcorn, put rice in, "bang" a sound will come out a long white rice stick, bite a bite has a faint smell of rice, but now such a small vendor has long been difficult to find, the taste of childhood can only stay in the memory.
In Fuxia's book, I experienced a journey of taste buds and re-examined our food culture from another perspective. The process of watching is also very relaxed and pleasant, and you can feel the most intimate human fireworks from her words.
The so-called bittersweet and sour is the fireworks world.