随园食单

by Yuan Mei, 袁枚

活得要任性，吃得要讲究。乾隆才子袁枚平生九大爱好，第一是"吃饭"，读书排最后。"豆腐煮得好，远胜燕窝；海菜若烧得不好，不如竹笋。"饮食，是大雅学问。
(果麦经典)

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

443 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1792

About the author

Yuan Mei (1716–1797) was a well-known poet, scholar, artist, and gastronome of the Qing Dynasty.

Yuan Mei was born in Qiantang, Zhejiang province, to a cultured family who had never before attained high office. He achieved the degree of jinshi in 1739 at the young age of 23 and was immediately appointed to the Hanlin Academy. Then, from 1742 to 1748, Yuan Mei served as a magistrate in four different provinces in Jiangsu. However, in 1748, shortly after being assigned to administer part of Nanjing, he resigned his post and returned to his hometown to pursue his literary interest.

In the decades before his death, Yuan Mei produced a large body of poetry, essays and paintings. His works reflected his interest in Chan Buddhism and the supernatural, at the expense of Daoism and institutional Buddhism - both of which he rejected. Yuan is most famous for his poetry, which has been described as possessing "unusually clear and elegant language". His views on poetry as expressed in the Suiyuan shihua (隨園詩話) stressed the importance of personal feeling and technical perfection. Among his other collected works are treatises on passing the imperial examinations and food.

Reviews

[Eressea · Rating 4 out of 5]

不想讀英文一直找別的東西來看
袁枚這本書很薄一下就看完了

除了個別很奇怪的意見
像是芹菜只能配素菜
火鍋是爛東西之外
其實大部份的菜色跟今天沒有太大差距
但想試試看，食譜又寫得很不精確
份量都很隨性，真的做下去要試誤很久吧

由此也可以看出袁老爺應該是只出一張嘴的人
他的廚師應該很想掐死老爺吧~