As soon as the news came out, Cai Lan's book "Learn from a Cut" sold out of stock directly, and the sales volume exploded. So I followed the trend and read this book online. Unfortunately, at this time, I can only read the online electronic version, so I can only browse the catalogue quickly.
Fortunately, now, you can read the physical book.
Who's Cai Lan?
194 1 Yu 18 was born in Cai Lan. His ancestral home is Chaozhou, Guangdong. He is a film producer, gourmet, columnist, film presenter and businessman. He even has a reputation as a god of food in Hong Kong. China on the Tip of the Tongue, a food documentary, invited Cai Lan to be the general consultant of the program.
Reading "Eat a Ceremony, Live a Joy", you can always see the transparency of an old man who has experienced years. The book says, "The more we know how to eat, the more we know how to live."
Therefore, every chapter of the book "Learn from a mistake" is about eating, but every chapter is about life.
Life is always inseparable from childhood, and eating is always inseparable from the "taste of childhood."
In many books about eating and food, it is always inseparable from memories and the food in that memory, and so is the book "Eating out Ceremony, Happy Life".
The first chapter is about "one billion". Young Cai Lan and his parents moved to a new home. There is a durian tree in the yard of that new home. Durian is immature, so the tree was cut down and used as a Grenade for their children to play with. It is also mentioned that a group of children eat durian under the tree and listen to dad's interesting story about durian.
Cai Lan said: "The likes and dislikes of food are very subjective. It is absolutely impossible to unify which is the best and which is the worst. It depends on where you come from and what you eat. "
He concluded: "Eating is a gene".
I haven't been to many places, so I can only feel very reasonable from my heart, but I don't know if it's right. After all, people around me and I have roughly the same taste, and the only evidence is an answer I saw on Zhihu:
One interviewee said: After he went abroad to France, he started to eat foie gras and steak, but two months later, he began to miss Chinese food and rice crazily. He thought this was the charm of Chinese food, but after his French friend came to China, it was the same experience.
At first, the French friend wanted to treat his old friend well, so he came to China for a month. He took people to eat local specialties every day, until a month later, his French friend said with a sad face, Friend, can we eat hamburgers today?
This shows that food is indeed a matter of opinion, and there are indeed genes.
When reading the catalogue of "Eat a Gift and Live a Happy Life", I especially want to read the book "Try to eat a menu with the garden".
I've been fascinated by Yuan Mei's "Menu with the Garden" for a long time, and I especially want to see how Cai Lan, a so-called gourmet, will "try".
Therefore, this chapter is particularly short. Almost one day, Cai Lan had a whim and wanted to try the "Suiyuan Food List", so he began to cook it, and it tasted good. The trial dish later became a dish when he had dinner with his friends.
At first, I felt a little disappointed, but when I think about it, isn't this the meaning of tasting?
Life, isn't it
In the book "Eat Rites, Live Happiness", the last episode is about life, and the title is "This Cup of Life".
In this episode, Cai Lan talked about "health", and I was deeply impressed by two sentences:
"Q:' As a gourmet, do you care about health?'
A:' A wise man once said that as a gourmet, you should start by sacrificing a little health.' "
This is Cai Lan's attitude towards life and Cai Lan's attitude towards food.
The book "Learn from a Pit" pays attention not only to Cai Lan and his food, but also to his life.