Prose Chapter Tongsheng The nostalgia of food

Mondo Culture Updated on 2024-02-13

HomesicknessIt seems to be a kind of magicEmotionEven if it is far away from time, it can still firmly bind our hearts. And whenHomesicknesswithGastronomyMeet, that kindEmotionIt is more profound and real.

GastronomyofHomesickness, perhaps not just a taste experience, but more of a memory aftertaste and nostalgia. For Lu Yaodong, Suzhou'sGastronomyWith his childhoodHomesickness, let him find warmth in a strange city. Forty years after returning to Suzhou, Lu Yaodong traced his memories and found the beauty of his youth in every bite of ordinary stewed meat noodles. In the brown soup of stewed meat noodles, the thin and white noodles, the green and white garlic flowers, and the braised meat that is more than an inch thick, half fat and half thin, after a bite, the fat melts in the mouth, and the soup has a faint salty sweetness, which is the taste of a beautiful morning. What Lu Yaodong is looking for is not only a bowl of noodles, but also the memories of his life during that special periodHomesickness

Wang Zengqi, is a pairGastronomyA writer with an endless passion. His text is full of pairsHometownGastronomyThe depiction of those foods is like a medium of reminders, evoking the distant pastHometownof thoughts. GaoyouYesWang ZengqiofHometownGastronomyIt is the brightest symbol in his memory. From fried rice and burnt crumbs toDuck eggs of the Dragon Boat Festival, from pickled mushroom soup to tiger sharks, snails, clams, mallards, quails, turtledoves, every single oneGastronomyAll have inextricable memories. And what he writes most often is Yangzhou'sDried silk。Probably because of its proximity to Yangzhou,GaoyouoflifewithGastronomyHabits are similar, so that they can be madeDried silkIt has become the most frequent occurrence in his penGastronomyOne. CookDried silk, hanging soup with small shrimps, belowDried silk, shredded ham, shredded chicken, and flavor. That bowlDried silkYesWang ZengqiShe is a Chinese-American female authorNie Hualingand her husband's cooking, and for himself, that dish also revealed the same meaning andEmotion

Everyone has the taste of hometown in their hearts, and those seemingly ordinary but unique foods carry the warmth and affection of childhood. Sometimes, a simple hometown dish is enough to arouse usHometownof longing and longing. For me, the crucian carp of my hometownFish jellywithRotRoast pork is my favorite winterGastronomy。In the Jiangnan water town along the river, the small crucian carp caught is fried until golden brown, boiled and then added with green garlic, frozen overnight, and served the next morningFish jellyEating porridge, the delicious and fragrant taste makes people have an endless aftertaste. And for lunch on Chinese New Year's Eve, what I look forward to most is a bowlRotRoast pork,Pork bellyThe fat and thin, the taste is rich, and I always miss the distant village.

GastronomyofHomesickness, it's not just a gustatory memory, it's a kind ofEmotionexperience. Lu Yaodong's Suzhou stewed meat noodlesWang ZengqiofGaoyouDried silk, my own hometown crucian carpFish jellywithRotRoast meat, all those nostalgic flavors. theseGastronomyThrough their unique charm, they bring us back to our childhood hometown and let us feel the uniqueness againEmotion。No matter where we are, in our heartsHomesicknessand to the hometownGastronomyThe longing always allows us to find the belonging and warmth of the heart. So, no matter where we are in the world, there is always a bowlGastronomyIt's in our heartsHomesicknessLocation.

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