Chapter 298: Cooking and Art

This is true when we choose tomatoes, and we also do this when we choose eggs, in short, we have to be careful and choose the best of the best. This is how we choose the ingredients we want to use www.biquge.info

When I say this, it doesn't seem like there's anything to it! It seems that anyone can do it. Also, what do you mean by that? It's all a pile of tomatoes, and some tomatoes are really different from other tomatoes!

Here, I would like to give you another example, so that you may have a visual understanding of what I am talking about.

For example, we generally like beautiful girls, and we feel that they are very attractive, with a slim body and beautiful appearance. Then I would like to ask you in turn, how did these beauties come to beauties, how did they come to the world, and what shaped them.

This question, in fact, should be asked to God, it was God who shaped them and brought them to the world. They are also the result of God's careful selection. They were also carefully selected from many ordinary-looking girls.

Let me give you such a vivid example, you should know how we choose the ingredients for such a delicious 'scrambled eggs with tomatoes'!

Of course, this does not necessarily mean that if you pick out such excellent ingredients, you will definitely be able to make a very delicious meal. After this step, it depends on the level of the chef, which is the main topic I will talk about next, that is, the topic of cooking.

As far as the word cooking is concerned, it has directly elevated cooking to the point where it can be compared with literature and art.

In fact, the history of cooking in China can be said to be a long history! However, in ancient times, it seems that only the emperor Lao'er, or dignitaries and dignitaries could taste some delicious dishes that have reached the level of culinary skills, and ordinary people are afraid that it is difficult to have such strength.

We can also see some things about how the imperial chef in the palace cooks the imperial food for the emperor Lao Tzu from some film and television dramas, and we can also get a glimpse of the leopard and see how particular the emperor is about having a meal.

Probably since there was an emperor, they had special chefs in charge of their meals. As the saying goes, industry is good at diligence and laziness. As long as people concentrate on one thing, they will be able to do it well.

It's the same with cooking, it's hard to talk about cooking when no one is dedicated to this one thing. For example, in primitive societies, people can't even guarantee three meals a day, let alone pay attention to the artistic level of color, flavor, and taste.

Only when the society has entered the class society, in order to pursue a luxurious life, some ruling classes will specially keep some cooks who are more good at cooking, and study the problem of how to eat well for them every day.

It can only be said that at this time, the history of cooking has begun. To say that the history of cooking began on that day is a question that no one can say clearly and cannot verify.

In any case, the history of cooking, like other histories of Chinese civilization, can be said to have a long history.

But in any case, due to the backwardness of science and technology in ancient times, although there has been a great improvement in culinary skills, in any case, the level of ancient cooking skills cannot be compared with modern cooking skills.

The reason why cooking is called cooking is that it is the art of cooking, that is to say, the ordinary cooking and stir-frying have risen to a process of artistic cultivation, so that the level of cooking skills has been continuously improved, so that it can also reach the point of perfection.

So it's art, and what is cooking! What's the difference between the two? Obviously, there are some differences. In other words, no matter how superb your cooking skills are, even if you are a chef in a five-star hotel and the top chef in the country, then you are just a chef, and it is difficult to say that you are an artist.

In this regard, even the author himself feels very strange. If cooking has been raised to the level of art, why can't some culinary masters be called stomach artists? Isn't that a contradiction!

I think the reason for this is that people still don't really raise the level of the art of cooking. Although we have tried to make cooking as close to the level of art as possible, in the end, no matter how hard we try, we cannot completely equate cooking and art.

No matter how much we try to merge the two, the result is not satisfactory. The result of our efforts is not very effective, art is still art, cooking is still cooking, the two cannot be fully integrated.

Just like in ancient times, most of the famous people we know have been passed down through the ages to literati and painters. We say they are all true masters of art. And few people know who those court chefs in history were, and how superb their cooking skills were.

These people, although at that time, may also be very powerful figures, may be in the court, but also deeply favored by the emperor, or may become important figures in the court, can become the emperor's side of the red people, can be a person to ascend to heaven.

Regardless, the culinary skills of these people, along with their names, have disappeared in the long river of history. It is also difficult for us to see their former glory in the vast historical materials.

Even if the time comes to the modern era such a bizarre and technologically advanced society, the level of cooking skills is no longer the same, the ancient culinary masters, although in terms of stir-frying technology, may be better, but in terms of some cooking utensils containing scientific and technological content, the ancient technical level can not be compared with modern society at all.

And I feel that the reason why the chefs at Tomato Hotel are able to stir-fry such a magical dish as 'Scrambled Eggs with Tomatoes' is precisely because we have absorbed traditional cooking techniques while also promoting the strengths of modern cooking.

We are the ancient for the present, the foreign for the Chinese, it can be said that the combination of Chinese and Western, ancient and modern. It is precisely because we have gathered the strengths of hundreds of schools of thought and developed our strengths and avoided weaknesses that we have made such a super version of home-cooked dishes - scrambled eggs with tomatoes, which has made our 'Tomato Hotel' one of the more famous hotels in our county.

Okay, I won't say much else, and from these words, you should also know how our super version of 'scrambled eggs with tomatoes' is made. As for whether you can understand all this when I say so much, I can't fully understand it.

I just hope that from today onwards, the fame of our Tomato Hotel will be raised to a higher level, so that people from all over the county will come to taste our magical dish. ”

After Tian Feng finished speaking, he gave the microphone to the beautiful reporter again.

After listening to Tian Feng's words, the beautiful reporter hurriedly praised: "Boss Tian, what you said is really good, after you said this, we have a deeper understanding of cooking, and we also know that being a senior chef is not an easy thing." ”

After the beautiful reporter finished speaking, she gave the microphone to Mr. Tomato next to her, and asked him, a great writer, to express how he views the relationship between cooking and art, two things that seem to be incompatible.

Tomato, as a well-known writer in the province, can also be said to be an out-and-out artist. Now it is only fitting that he should answer this somewhat in-depth question.

Tomato took the microphone, cleared his throat, coughed twice and said, "That's right, I'm also a writer with some achievements in writing!" But I can barely be called a writer, it's hard to say that I am an artist. I feel that the word artist is a very sacred word, and not everyone can be called an artist.

Now let me talk about the art of cooking, but I want to illustrate it from the perspective of myself as a writer, not from the perspective of an artist.

In fact, if you want to say that cooking and art are more similar, it is more similar to the art category of writing, and it is really not very similar to other art categories.

Why do I say that! It's because I'm a writer that I know what my work looks like in the eyes of readers. What kind of work is a good work and how to evaluate an excellent literary work are all questions that a writer should consider.

It can be said that when a writer creates a work, it is similar to a chef stir-frying a dish, which is a process of creation, a process of creating something out of nothing. The chef takes some of the ingredients, knots them, cuts them, and then puts them in a wok to cook them, and then processes them into delicious dishes.

The working process of a writer is similar to that of a chef. Before they write, they have to look for some writing materials, and after that, they have to process and sort out the useful materials they have found through their brains, and then arrange some plots and contradictions to intensify their points, so that they can use words to compile a good-looking literary work.

How a chef can make delicious dishes from ordinary ingredients depends on the chef's level. The same common ingredients can be made into a delicious dish in the hands of a top chef. In the hands of ordinary people, only ordinary dishes can be made, which is the difference between a chef and an ordinary person.

And writing is the same, it is also to find some writing materials, some great writers can write an excellent work, while ordinary writers cannot write very good works at all, this is a question of artistic level.