A dish, a story: Flavor edition

Author: Yiwen
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Publish Date: 2006-11-01
Features: The "Flavor" volume of this collection includes a diverse range of dishes, combining both meat and vegetables, with clever pairings and complementary flavors. The tastes are varied, including light, rich, savory, sweet, fragrant, sweet and sour, fresh, savory, exotic, spicy, and numbing. The cooking techniques are diverse, covering boiling, stewing, stir-frying, steaming, deep-frying, roasting, hot pot, braising, mixing, soaking, pan-frying, baking, simmering, brewing, pickling, and poaching. Some dishes are household names, such as knife-cut noodles, Dan Dan noodles, Goubuli buns, Guoqiao rice noodles, hot pot lamb, lamb skewers, Yangzhou fried rice, Jinhua ham, rock candy skewers, etc. Others are less commonly known or even unheard of, such as eel with rice noodles, beef dumplings with dough, kitten congee, round radish pickles, Wuzhi oil tea, Liu Defang tangyuan, Fo Gong cakes, Guokui mo, Fengshan braised pork trotters, divine eggs, Chaoshan jiale, Guobianhu, and Baiyin Ru Yi, etc. There are over sixty flavors, each accompanied by a story that is either hilarious, uplifting, enlightening, thought-provoking, or inspiring.
Today, people in China place great importance on food and enjoy trying dishes from all over the world. They not only savor famous dishes but also taste local snacks. When visiting Beijing, one must eat Doucuo steamed buns; in Chengdu, Dan Dan noodles; in Tianjin, Goubuli buns; in Changsha, Liu Defang tangyuan; and in Kunming, Guoqiao rice noodles. But how many untold, fascinating stories lie behind these snacks?
Before tasting a particular flavor, if a lively anecdote about its cultural significance strikes your ears and delights your mood, will your appetite grow stronger? Will your enthusiasm increase? Will your sense of enjoyment be more profound? This book organically combines the snacks themselves with vivid anecdotes, allowing readers to become familiar with various flavors. While enjoying the delicious food, they can chat about stories, legends, and tales, engaging in lively discussions that both entertain and enrich knowledge. It offers both the essence of the cuisine and the endless aftertaste of its stories.