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Food and Humanity I If one is demanding on food and pursue the unified perfection of its taste, smell, color and presence in order to please his own sensory system by putting tireless effort preparing food with artistic enthusiasm, what that reflects? If one has detest for food, his eating is for survival only, he never likes cooking, what that reflects? If one is a gourmand and can take lots of food but never feels full, what that reflects? If one is a gourmet, in the sense that he likes trying food made from ‘special’ ‘rare-seen’ materials, what that means? If one particularly enjoys very sweet food/beverage, what that means? If one specially goes for very chilly and strong flavor food, what that means? And who vote for plain food? If one prefers fish, meat, or veg, what that respectively reflects? How about the difference btw grass-eaters and meat-eaters? You, food-lover or hater, humane eater or greedy eater, please reveal. Next time, I will show you how Beijing Olympic is related with the Chinese Food Menu. p.s. Happy Holidays and Enjoy Food! For a consecutive two nights, I had great food with great friends. But crazily, 1st night we started cooking fm 9:30pm and food ready at midnight. So when ppl were sleeping, we were having an orchestra in kitchen. Last night, we started to toast and eat at 7:30pm, and finished the last drop of wine at 2:30am. Surely, there was always good music, hot pot bubbling, waters spraying (active discussion) and some other accompaniments. Is the eating-themed party such a pleasure? Even I wonder. |
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Waiting for the next Menu... Merry Christmas!
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12/23/2006 3:41 pm |
Happy Holiday to you too Swallow. Thanks for feasting the mind. Nik
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A belated Merry Xmas and a in-time Happy New Year to you all! Nam Some ppl's bodies are not fed by food, food just doesnt have any hand on them. Are you of this case? Fedder, Guess u'r a food-enjoyer as well as a roller! Nikkon, Fine food feasts your mind. Cheers! Virgo Merry and bright, replenished with serpent. Dummy, Cute name. 'clean and edible' is kind of picky? No? U said 'eating is the only amusement they can afford.'. Isnt it a luxury amusement that they can afford? You remind me of a foreign friend's assumption - he deems Chinese ppl enjoy so much eating and eating so much is simply because we have been hungered for several geneartions and are eating to compensate.
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Gourmet, You like desert? Yorkshire Pudding and pies...but seemed Yorkshire Pudding is not a desert fm yr description. You like to trace the history why these similarities happens. Is it simple? Just a result of interactions by ppl fm different origins. In the past and now, we have so many fusion food, in any country's recipe. But still, like you, when I see the similarities in the elements of food btw two so farawy countries/regions, I am amazed. Salted cod is a famous Portuguese dish named 'balcalhau', they have 1000 ways to cook it. I love it. We have here in Macau but I dont know they also have it in Carribean. Many worth mentioning...by the way, enjoy food as much as you can. A person loves food would love life as well.
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Some people use food to destroy their own lives (bulimia)... Bulimia contractors hate food and life. Tks for pointing out the current trends of dif. food takers. I am for slow-food. Eating is a comprehensive course and enjoyment. Imagine it. Food carries more than food...
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gourmet, I see family meals as important since it is the only occasion and the most relevant occasion for family communication. Pls send me some frozen Yorkshire pudding !Still, thanks God, Chinese ppl inherit this tradition by eating happily, talking happily and playing majoh happily during such occasion of family meals, esp. in CNY. Portuguese too. We can have a meal for a consecutive 7 to 14 hours. Meal is not only meal but a rare occasion to share life. Quite ofen, when I am very free-handed, I will cook myself or friends a good Cantonese soup and some simple noodle or rice. Good to kill time and still the mind thru preparation of food, starting fm buying materials in the market,washing, cutting to cooking. A course fo comprehensive feel. I appreciate very much men who like cooking and treat it as kind of art.
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