Taste of the World by Xiao Yu, Guangxi Normal University Press
Some food, eating and eating, cries; some stories, listening to it, laughs. The two lines on the cover are warm and powerful. There are old people in the taste, and there is more affection; there is joy in the taste, and there is also sorrow.
Not discrimination, among the several traditional famous dishes in China, the Northeast cuisine is unknown. In addition to pork stew noodles, there are not a few foreigners who can't count more northeastern dishes. As a native of Northeast China, xiao Yu, the author of this book, writes about pork stew noodles, sauce eggplant, pot wrapped meat, plucked sweet potatoes, and large pulling skins. These dishes have become a common deep memory of northeasterners, largely because they have accompanied people through major historical special years such as breaking into the Kanto region and reforming state-owned enterprises, and they are also difficult periods. Behind each dish, Xiao Yu will carefully embed one or a few small people around him - the dish is only the memory of the taste of the tip of the tongue, and the depth of the salvage memory is the taste of the world where the fate of the little person fluctuates.
The more special the age, the more closely the fate of the little people is connected to food. The whole book is divided into five parts: salty, sweet, sour, spicy and fragrant, each article will write an authentic Northeastern dish, and behind each dish will stand the people around the author who are particularly familiar with them, with different personalities and vivid characters.
The birth and popularity of pickles is partly because people pursue pleasure on the tip of the tongue, and more often because of the last resort to solve the difficulty of food shortage. In the eyes of northeasterners, the existence value of pickles is deeper because of special weather. Once you enter the season of heavy snow cover in winter, the poetry that nature brings year after year is only confusing to northeasterners. Although every household digs a cellar to store vegetables before winter, the number of tricks is small, and pickles shine in the winter table. More interestingly, many pickles have become a snack for children, and pickles have become an indispensable housewife for housewives.
Seeing hawthorn sauce will unconsciously touch the reader's taste buds. I have never eaten hawthorn sauce, but Xiao Yu's story will really take many people into that innocent childhood. Because hawthorn sauce is often used by people to "sick meals", and Xiao Yu rarely gets sick, naturally he lacks such a blessing. Fortunately, Grandma will always take care of her niece, "You help Grandma eat something, Grandma can't finish eating." Many people who have lived through special eras have similar memories, but the character is not necessarily Grandma. And those "sick meals" of that year have long been less flavorful than childhood.
The days come out step by step, so many ordinary side dishes give a different taste. In the memories of Da Lapi, it was always as if there was a needle hidden in the dish, and the tip of the tongue was faintly painful. It turned out that Xiaomei and Xiao zhi, who lived in Xiao Yu's home, started from scratch, worked together, and slowly lived out the bright colors of life by selling big rapies. But Xiao Zhi, whose days have gradually become active, has stepped into the wrong path of life, picking flowers and weeds, not only breaking up his own family with his own hands, but also deeply affecting his daughter's future. Life is like this, sometimes it picks up quickly, but it falls quickly. This does not only refer to Xiaomei and Xiaozhi, but also to the uncle who loves to drink.
In contrast, Xiaosheng, who loves to eat beef chili sauce, has become a positive model. Because when he had not yet entered the society, he lost his hand and caused his life, it can be said that the beginning of Xiaosheng's entry into society was simply terrible. But who can think that the small victory who holds a "bad card" in the next life, diligent and sincere, duty, small business although ups and downs, but the life is always passable. Life is like this, "Ordinary people will live well in the good days they encounter; when they encounter bad days, they will stay up, stay up, and it will be good." "The family has a difficult scripture to read, and there is no textbook for everyone to live a life, the key lies in their serious attitude towards life, xiao zhi is like this, Xiao Sheng is also like this."
These Northeastern dishes in Xiao Yu's pen are sometimes like the spiritual shapes of the northeastern crowd portraits. Cabbage pork stew noodles, this famous northeastern dish Xiao Yu wrote to Da Liangzi, and wrote steamed hash ants to his wife, that is, Lao Qi (dwarfism patient). These are two ordinary people who have their fate firmly in their hands, who have experienced the difficulties that ordinary Northeasterners have experienced, but they have never given up the hope of life. With the hard-working and tenacity of the northeasterners, as well as the excellent quality of enthusiasm and fastness, they will live a wonderful life step by step, and they finally bought a new house in the city, and their daughter was admitted to the university in Beijing as she wished.
Through these simple words of Xiao Yu, and also through the dishes with Northeastern characteristics, the reader seems to see the historical fireworks of the development of The Northeast. In the "Soviet houses" of the past, everyone was trying to write their own unique life story: life was originally just a common ingredient, and whether it could become a delicacy in the good memories of the future depended on everyone's attitude towards the day.
Source: Qilu Evening News