Humans and food are equal (Revised Version)

Author: Shu Qiao
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Publish Date: 2006-03-01
Features: Shu Qiao's writing brings great joy, more so than writing about food, it's about her own life and food. Her novels are cold, her essays are warm, her interests span many fields, the number of books she reads is astonishing, she loves food but never gains weight, she favors the quirky yet remains natural. Often, her writing feels like a delightful plaything—unsentimental yet full of emotion, unpretentious yet absolutely charming! However, as human society develops, food becomes increasingly abundant, and people's demands for it grow more stringent. Descriptions of food are no longer about "whether it can fill the belly," but "whether it is delicious and novel." Under the judgment of discerning taste buds, food is categorized into ranks, gradually losing its dominant position and being selected and enslaved by humans. What happens when people view food as they view people? We don't need to be pedantic about tracing its origins or genealogy, nor do we need to be neurotic, deifying it one moment and condemning it the next. We can understand its joys and sorrows, its coexistence with humans, and the sparks it ignites with them. I write about food as I write about people. "Humans and Food Are Equal" is like the name of a philosophical book from the land of food. I hope this book is not a cookbook or a food-hunting guide, but rather our "Friends" with food.