"Zi Ma Mi Li Says - Food Culture"

Author: Huang Baolian
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Publish Date: 2006-05-01
Features: Food is the most primal and indulgent pleasure, always revealing their wonderful meanings in language and senses. Sesame, rice grains, lime, cheese, cumin – our stomachs crave them, and thus, food becomes whimsical, wild, and obsessed with elegance. We eat with passion and bold abandon. This book blends exotic cuisines, human anecdotes, and life essays, with food as the protagonist, depicting life – filled with the aroma of food and the poetic grace of a gentle breeze. "Don’t know if it’s joy or sorrow? Twenty-five years of nothing accomplished, but at least I haven’t disappointed my stomach. To comfort myself, I wrote this book," the author says. As a writer who spends his days between the desk and the dining table, the author jokingly claims his cooking is tastier than his words. This book blends exotic cuisines, human anecdotes, and life essays, with food as the protagonist, depicting life – filled with the aroma of food and the poetic grace of a gentle breeze.