| Never | a sense of coldness about life
"My favorite place in the world is the kitchen.
▲ 《call me by your name》
No matter where it is, no matter what it looks like, as long as it is a kitchen, as long as it is a place to cook, I will not hate. If possible, it is best to have a complete set of utensils, a few clean and dry towels, with white tiles, sparkling.
Even in the dirty kitchen, I still like it to death. ”
No, I can't, it has to be a clean and tidy kitchen that I like, with a sense of stability and order in life. Can read Yoshimoto Banana wrote, inexplicably felt soft.
▲ "Little Forest"
The refrigerator was stuffed with all sorts of food that seemed to easily survive the winter, and suddenly looked up from the oil-stained gas stove or rusty kitchen knife, and the starlight outside the window was silent. When I was exhausted, I thought that I would like to take my last breath in the kitchen as I bid farewell to this life. ”
Being able to cook a full, full kitchen means a sense of security. The girl in the novel lives in a friend's house after the death of her relatives. The friend's kitchen is quite satisfactory, the silver cold pan, the sharp knives, the high-grade juicer, and the refrigerator are also neatly arranged.
▲ The kitchen of "Julie and Julia" is the dream of a cook
In fact, the novel "Kitchen" has nothing to do with cooking and eating, and the kitchen is more like a womb where the soul is placed. But the opening confession really makes some people take the status of the kitchen to the next level (like me).
I also liked the kitchen, the kitchen with traces of use. The cups washed last night had been drained from the shelves, the refrigerator was buzzing intermittently, the enamel pot on the stove was grunting and the soup was steaming, and an unfinished book was upside down on the table.
▲ Stills from Ackermann's Jeanne Dillmann
If it is a "cold cuts" kitchen, it is difficult to have such a sense of relaxation. Too spotlessly cold, let people beat a cold gag, tied hands and feet really dare not roll up their sleeves and let go to dry, the only meals that can be cooked inside are afraid of salads.
People who really cook in the kitchen, cut vegetables, prepare vegetables under the pot in one go, but also indispensable oil splashing and crunching, orderly and disorderly mixing appears. After doing it, it is good to wipe the stains finely, and the kitchen without fireworks loses its meaning of life.
▲ The open kitchen of the restaurant in "Seagull Canteen"
In the BBC documentary, Rachel Khoo's mini kitchen in "Little Paris Kitchen" is particularly cute, almost like a fluffy soufflé, with a buttery scent across the screen.
Her territory is no more than the size of an arm span, the sparrow is small and well-equipped, the circulation line is arranged reasonably, the lively objects are within reach, the cooking is halfway, and the basil rosemary on the balcony can also be used by hand.
▲ "Angel Amelie" appeared to speak
What a lively kitchen, the cheese fell on the board, twisted up and put it in the mouth to steal, when making red wine stew, the extra just sipped off, is a happy cook.
The kitchen is really a nice healing place. Thinking about it, in the time people spend around the kitchen, there are many memories that cannot be dissolved.
Aoyama Nanae's novel seems to have had such a bridge section. My aunt, who was suffering from cancer and frying mackerel in the kitchen, suddenly opened her mouth and said quietly, if you eat mackerel again in the future, you will definitely remember me.
▲ "Little Forest" reproduces Mom's exclusive cake
We are always willing to attach abstract emotions to the details of life, so that it seems to be traceable, and the kitchen seems to be the best place to remember.
In "Long Hate Song", when Wang Qiyao was down and had no one to rely on, he met his old friend Mr. Cheng who had not been seen for many years in the old goods store, and the two went to Mr. Cheng's house to eat and cook by him.
Mr. Cheng cooked bacon rice and a large bowl of custard. The two sat facing each other, carrying a rice bowl, but they were a little overly hungry, and their stomachs were full. Bowl after bowl of rice went down, only to feel empty, just eat bowl after bowl, as if there was no bottom, unconsciously eat the rice of a medium-sized steel pot, the custard also saw the bottom, and couldn't help but laugh.
I wanted to meet once in twelve years, but I didn't say much, but I was bored to eat. I also thought that I had eaten together many times in the past, and I didn't add up to more than this one.
Old friends reunite, emotions grow darkly, and only the kitchen can bear this care without words.
In fact, most of the scenes placed in the kitchen are about human feelings.
We ourselves are not also choking, and it is inevitable that we will miss the fireworks in the kitchen during the New Year.
When I was a child, the kitchen for the New Year was very rich, the cabbage in the north could be piled up in the stairway, and the salted fish and bacon in the south also occupied the territory early. The family took turns to make dumplings, the refrigerator is definitely not enough to put, pot after pot of steam flooded the kitchen, eating into the stomach is the serious thing.
And now the new year taste of the child to see the faint up, said that the good kitchen will be unsealed in the New Year,but some times is also the whole family hotel to book a table, the dishes are quite complete, some of the annual fish are also on the yard, no effort, but the new year's hot hope for the momentum has been a lot of discounts.
But another kind of nostalgia arises in situ.
For young people now, cooking is a little pastime, and liking the kitchen is more like the homely and warm, rare place to live.
▲ Asking is to tinker in the kitchen
I still remember when I was studying, I often lost sleep in the middle of the night, turned on the dim light of the hood, and sat aimlessly at the small kitchen table with friends.
Many times I forget about it, but I remember their kitchen, the red and white lattice tablecloth on the small cream square table with coffee stains and ketchup on it, and the residue of baguette bread on the large wooden board bought by IKEA.
The kitchen never needs to be too delicate, it should be peeled off the shell, and the soft side that people can reveal.
However, I think that modern urban people are unlikely to invite people to eat at home, restaurants and takeaways are not too rich, and solemn invitations are cramped.
▲ Breakfast made by a friend can be eaten for a lifetime
However, there are a few very close friends who love to cook for people to taste, and I am quite popular, and I eat satisfactorily every time. He is not a good cook, so he only loves to cook for one person.
When cooking pasta alone in the kitchen, I am always distracted by Haruki Murakami's "The Year of Pasta", in which the aroma of garlic fried in the pot is full of vigorous weight. Stir-frying under the meat sauce, coupled with fresh tomatoes and basil to boil a little bit into a bright pink sauce, is also a calming pleasure.
Occasionally, I will go to a small shop that has no psychological burden for one person to eat. Most of the people I go to are Japanese-style izakayas, and there are many commuters, or simply people who live nearby.
It is also strange to say that there are many small shops in the city that are suitable for one-person food, all of which are Japanese, and they are probably influenced by Japanese dramas, and the dishes are refreshing and diverse. There will also be no shame in "giving relatives to see me eating Yoshinoya alone." I think the lights in fast food restaurants are too white, change the light color, maybe the heart will relax a lot.
▲ A small poem in "Let's Eat Together"
Even if modern people don't like to cook, they will like to buy kitchenware and tableware. Thick cast iron pots and exquisite snow flat pots are all ready, so it is better to take them out and use them next time.
Content Editor: Xiao Li Linus, takeaway is not wanted to order.
The original article was first published on the public account of "New Weekly" "Miss F Miss F".
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