Cai Lan, Jin Yong, Huang Zongxi and Ni Kuang are called "Four Great Talents" and "Gourmets"!
Old Mr. Jin Yong once commented on Cai Lan: He is well-informed, good at piano, chess, painting and calligraphy, rich in debauchery, eating, drinking, whoring and gambling, literature and movies, and knows everything. In film, poetry, calligraphy, epigraphy and diet, it can be said to be a first-class channel.
But as far as personal achievements are concerned, Cai Lan is undoubtedly successful. But compared with his literary talent, I personally think that his "strength" in the field of food is not outstanding!
After all, the films he has produced include: fast food truck, Dragon Brother and Tiger Brother, Lucky Star, City Hunter, Thunderstorm, Good Man, Major Crimes Unit and other blockbusters starring Jackie Chan.
The achievements in the field of food are nothing more than launching "violent series" snacks, sauces and tea drinks, participating in the opening of Hong Kong restaurants and serving as the host of food columns!
It's not that he doesn't know or understand food, but he doesn't have a specific answer to the concept of food, just like some people like to eat scrambled eggs with tomatoes, and some people never eat tomatoes!
In fact, the topic is not worth studying, and it seems that Mr. Cai's understanding of food is studied in Cantonese cuisine, cuisines and western food, not in other major cuisines in China, among which Sichuan cuisine and Hunan cuisine are the most typical!
Cai Lan, born in chaozhou people, Guangdong, studied in Japan and became famous in Hongkong! As can be seen from his life track, although he knows delicious food, he may not know much about other major cuisines in China!
Give a simple example; Sichuan cuisine, Sichuan cuisine emphasizes spicy and delicious. If you want to know a cuisine, it doesn't mean that you can understand it after eating it. However, from the origin, development, innovation and improvement of this dish, on the other hand, from its material selection, production technology, duration, time and other aspects, if a person has not tasted and understood a dish many times, it is not called understanding this dish.
So I think Cai Lan knows Cantonese cuisine, cooking and so on, but I personally don't agree with "Gourmet"! A thousand people watching Journey to the West may not have a thousand the Monkey King, but there may be 999 "showy"!
I'm a big-faced cat, and I'm glad to answer your question.
Say the answer first. Of course, Mr. Cai knows a lot about food. What you ask is how much you know. You can't find a word to answer this question. Of course you can't say that you know the most, so I can only say that you know more than at least 99.9% people.
Before talking about Mr. Cai, let me tell you a short story. One day Puyi visited Wang Guowei's house, and Wang took out the antique calligraphy and painting he had collected for many years for Puyi to appreciate. Pu hasn't touched it, and he doesn't need a magnifying glass. He looked at it and said which ones were true and which ones were false. Wang doesn't like it. I at least collected everyone. You said it was fake. It was fake? Later, I took it out and identified it with some experts, just like Pu said. I was convinced, so I asked Pu what he thought. Pu said: it's not the same as mine! Haha, you say this is unreasonable, but this is the reality. Some people dabble in some fields far more than the average person.
Good food depends on taste and comparison. After eating, store the taste in your brain through the memory of taste buds on the tip of your tongue, and then compare some similar dishes. Only at this point can you be considered a gourmet. This requires a huge menu. The quantity and quality of food eaten by Mr. Cai are far superior to others. I just looked at the number, variety and range of food menus he recommended, and there were only four words in my mind: amazing! He has eaten so many kinds of lobsters that he can come to the conclusion that Bioron, a local green dragon in Hong Kong, is delicious. In addition, there are sheep in Yugoslav rice fields, Iranian fish eggs that only a few people can cook, gold stains made by Koreans, and ham from Italian fruit trees. Think about what he hasn't eaten in this world. I think the most powerful thing is that in the past ten years, with the development of the Internet, our horizons have become wider and wider, and it has become easier and easier to eat delicious food, such as lobster and durian. Many high-end ingredients have flooded into China. But think about it, when he ate all over the world, there was no internet. The old man ran out on two legs. Where to eat delicious food, he killed him at once. This eating attitude won 90% first place.
I thought he didn't like northern food and Sichuan spicy food very much, but later I was wrong. He knows Beijing food like the back of his hand. He criticizes hot pot, saying that if this goes on, other Sichuan dishes will be gone. In fact, there are many very good foods in Sichuan, but because of the high profit of hot pot and the lack of chefs, it is welcomed by the market and will squeeze the development space of other Sichuan dishes. For example, what he said about a boiled cabbage really subverts my impression of Sichuan cuisine. After the soup is poured,
Some people say that the food imported from Cai Lan is not delicious. I want to say that food is not an industrial product after all. The freshness of the ingredients may be different from the salt put by the chef every day, so the products are different every day. Maybe it was nice to see Cai Lan coming that day, right? There are hundreds of people with different tastes. That's what the so-called saying is.
Finally, you can be the general consultant of the tip of the tongue, which is not what you want to do. Why don't so many chefs in China invite you, so you can't deny the greatness of others.
Does Cai Lan know anything about food? I disagree, but I don't think so. The taste, hearing, sight and touch of an 80-year-old person are seriously degraded, and even the best food fails. He is a face-saving foodie, but he is useless and faceless. Many grassroots chefs in China are the real foodies. After decades of smoking, he has been groping in food, whether it is on the stove or on the spoon. He devoted his life to people's health, safety and hygiene. He is nothing. Praised by a tall man and a news body, he became a gourmet. People all over the world will recognize him. He has never heard of Cai Sheng making a side dish into a big meal, or inventing Cai Jia Cai and Cai Jia sauce. He has written several books on Asian cuisine and worked as a film and television consultant with the team. This is real kung fu, a gourmet? I really don't agree.
If what he recommends is the supreme best, then there is no need for others to be gourmets.
Presumably, many people know that some delicious foods from many years ago may be ignored today because there are better ingredients and cooking methods. It is also possible that there are no such good ingredients now, so the so-called food is not worthy of the name.
At a higher level, the dietary preferences of the southeast and northwest, at home and abroad, young and old, everyone, or each group of people are different. Some people think the steak is rare, while others think it is rare or even burnt. Who is right? Some people want to eat fresh, while others want to eat fermented. What is the standard?
The world is very big, and he thinks some place is the best in the world. Does he really taste the same food all over the world? Obviously impossible.
Of course, food has its advantages and disadvantages, but the world is full of miracles. There is no need to regard his recommendation as a sacred book, let alone pretend to praise it.
Eat, or wrap your stomach, or nourish, or be happy. If you don't like something that others like, it is foolish to waste your time to get it.
I think so! Not everything recommended by celebrities is delicious! Everyone has different tastes, and you won't know until you eat what you like and don't like!
No matter how delicious things are, we don't necessarily like what others like, because we don't like what foreigners think is delicious! What we think is delicious and foreigners don't like it?
Some things are expensive, but they may not be suitable for you. Just have a simple meal, have an appetizer and eat healthily!
Happiness is the most important thing. Everything smells good when you are hungry, and you lose your appetite when you are full.
Taste, only taste can be understood.
The greatness of Mr Cai Lan is that he can make you imagine delicious food in words. In addition, the taste is really difficult to develop to the extreme, so Mr. Cai Lan (after all, he has made movies) can often sublimate from delicious food to stories.
It seems to be about food, but it is actually about our life and even about a fireworks culture.
The difference between eating and eating! You think it's just eating
Mr Cai is more like a food writer. His writing skills are better than his taste in food, but his success lies in his extensive diet.
The beauty of food can't be as simple as "satisfying the stomach" and "satisfying the appetite".
Chinese food pays attention to the "color, aroma and shape" of food, but it is usually subjective in color and prone to strong regional deviation.
Personally, when discussing food, we can learn from tasting standards: the appearance and aroma of food can account for a small amount of weight, and the structure and level of the entrance and the aftertaste account for a large proportion, which may be fairer.
Gourmets should have wider taste buds and be able to taste more local cuisines in the world, regardless of regions, ingredients and cooking methods. They should not be fair to food only by their own subjective preferences and unique love, although it is almost difficult.
Therefore, the evaluation system of Michelin restaurants can be universal all over the world, that is, to establish an objective evaluation system for the "beauty" of food, and to be recognized by more people (not all).
On the basis of the level of gourmets, it is allowed to incorporate personal style characteristics, and it is possible to make personalized judgments on foods with a special liking and add color to the food culture.
In all fairness, Mr. Cai is a veteran foodie who is good at writing stories. He is both greedy and literary. He is also the last batch of China intellectuals in China who are deeply loved by many people, so everything he says will have a group of fans.
Second, as the short and tight intellectuals said, the intellectuals in China are withdrawing from the historical stage.
Cai Lan, as a gourmet, is just a sideline, which can also be said to be a hobby. I think we should at least know about China's food culture before drawing a conclusion. Gourmets pay attention to "never get tired of eating essence, never get tired of stewing essence", what to eat and what not to eat in solar terms, so as to understand the cultural connotation and growth story of food, just like eating zongzi in the Dragon Boat Festival to worship Qu Yuan, which used to be white zongzi, but now there are all kinds of fillings. Gourmets pay attention to food and nutrition, that is, the function of food can be anything except wrapping the stomach. Gourmets pay attention to local food. To go to a place, you must have the most authentic local flavor, travel all over the world and eat all over the world. If you count with your fingers, a gourmet should not only have culture, but also know history and travel. Then I think Cai Lan is a qualified gourmet, and he has his own experience.
Cai Lan doesn't even know what food is.
What exactly is food?
Can someone tell me?
Delicious, delicious food, beautiful women, beautiful scenery, beautiful things.
The key is this beautiful word.
Like what is beauty?
beauty is in the eye of the beholder
So, what is food?
Such as fisherman's bait when fishing. That thing, the bait is food
People who eat delicious food are very particular. The key is to eat delicious food for more than one purpose. One is to satisfy one's appetite, and the other is to eat healthily, that is, people who know how to eat can understand food and health. Vegetables and fruits are the best delicious food. Cai Lan belongs to a person who knows how to satisfy his appetite, not a person who knows how to eat healthy food. Because he is in poor health in Cai Lan]. When I say "five flavors are refreshing", he actually means "eating too much delicious food will cause problems", while Cai Lan belongs to "unhealthy people who eat too much delicious food" who know how to eat but don't know how to eat healthily, that is, they don't know how to eat healthily.
People who used to know about food used to measure jiaozi with a ruler. Jiaozi, it's not the right size. I didn't eat it. When they meet food, they have to stay up for seven days, take a shower and change clothes, and then go in hungry to taste food. Don't eat too much, eat three points full. This is called understanding food.