Everyone has their own quirks when it comes to eating.For example, there is a Yidujun (WeChat: yiduiread)When I saw the mushroom, I shivered all over, and there was also a fan of Yidujun who was a pig's brain, pig's tail and all pigs going into the water.
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Recently, NPC (NPR)Eric Viner (Eric Weiner)I visited many cities such as Athens, Kolkata, Edinburgh, Hangzhou and Silicon Valley to see why these outstanding people and places have produced many geniuses.Because I can't understand the full English version, I read it (WeChat: yiduiread)Not sure he found the environmental factors that shape genius, but he did discover the special relationship between many great figures in history and food.
By the way, weiner It's also a food-related word.
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If you like to eat or not, you will die in the end
Wiener writes in his book Geography of Genius that genius and food have a lot in common: both can give others "nutrition" and encourage people to make progress, and occasionally scary.Some geniuses (food )Many people like it, such as Washington, who cut down cherry trees and Edison, who invented the light bulb, are among the slow-heating type, and are initially regarded as madmen, and later they are gradually accepted by the world.
As a qualified genius, you must have special uses for eating and drinking.
In Edison's hands, soup is a tool for interviews.The candidates who came to him for interview were treated as a bowl of hot soup.However, when you are drinking the soup, Edison is peeking. If you sprinkle pepper noodles, chili noodles, cumin, salt, coriander and other seasonings into it, it will be directly wiped out by this great inventor.In his opinion, adding seasonings without tasting them must be a person who is negligent and self-righteous.
There seems to be nothing wrong.
People who are extremely addicted to coffee can worship the great French writer Balzac as their ancestor. His classic saying "I am not at home, I am in a cafe, I am not in a cafe, I am on the way to a cafe", vividly describes the ideal state of being a coffee fan, and no one can match it yet.
Writing all night long is a daily routine for writers.When Balzac stays up late to write, he drinks about 50 cups of high-concentration coffee.In the 1830s, he wrote an article for a magazine titled "The Joy and Troubles of Coffee": "Once coffee enters your stomach, it immediately causes a physical turmoil.Thoughts line up to open the way, just like the vanguard of the three armies, the battle begins!" He claimed that every book can only be completed by "the coffee flowing into a river".
However, Yidu (WeChat: yiduiread)Drinking urine is useless when you can't hold it in your manuscript.
Although coffee is good, you can't drink it.For Balzac, stimulating the brain with coffee for about 15 hours a day, "causing terrible pain in the stomach."Coffee made Balzac lose until he was 51 years old, and the cause of death was caffeine poisoning.
If you have love until you die, you will have hatred until you die.The Greek mathematician Pythagoras hated beans very much, and as his fan, he not only could not eat beans, but could not even touch them.Is Pythagoras afraid of smelling the dirty gas emitted from the lower part of the human body?
Aristotle gave the answer in "On Pythagoras": Pythagoras advised people to quit eating beans, either because they were shaped like testicles, or because one was not connected, or because they were like the shape of the universe, or because they belonged to oligarchy - people used beans to vote.”
This guy who refused to eat beans eventually died on the beans.According to legend, someone wanted to ambush him at that time, and on the way to escape, Pythagoras refused to trample on the bean fields, but was caught and executed.
Can vegetarianism purify the body?
Many geniuses in history are vegetarians, with big names such as Leonardo da Vinci, Gandhi, and Bernard Shaw on the list, while Newton and Einstein may have insisted on eating vegetarian food for a period of time.
The controversy over vegetarianism continues, but vegetarianism has become a relatively advanced way of life in contemporary society and is sought after by countless sincere or followers.
Jobs, who redefines his phone, is also a staunch vegan, and his weird view of food is notorious.In The Biography of Steve Jobs, author Walter Isaacson writes that the Silicon Valley genius, Jobs, is extremely picky about food and will immediately make extreme comments on any food.For example, after Jobs tasted the same two pears, he would say that they were the best in the world, and he could just vomit and scold the other one.
This is the true teaching of Mr. Lu Xun that "one is a jujube tree and the other is also a jujube tree."
After getting married, Jobs' quirky eating habits remained: he could eat one thing for several weeks, and his body changed color until his carrots were eaten until his body changed. Then suddenly he began to hate carrots and declared that he would never eat them again in his life.
After being diagnosed with cancer, Jobs did not undergo tumor resection at the beginning, but instead wanted to find another solution.His method is to be a strict vegetarian diet: drink a lot of fresh carrot juice and apple juice, and also try various herbs, acupuncture therapy, and even see psychics, which delayed nine months of treatment.Even with postoperative endocrine and metabolic disorders, he still adheres to his past eating habits...
There is no one else in this persistence.
In Jobs' view, dieting and fasting can purify the body, while digesting food is a waste of people's energy.Jobs was not the only one who had this idea. Ancient Greek writer Aristophane believed that the Athenians were extremely intelligent because of their low-calorie eating habits.
Michelangelo is also an indifferent person to food. He eats "more out of necessity, not enjoyment."According to his apprentice Ascanio, Michelangelo usually painted the "The Last Judgment" all day and only had dinner at night.
Of course, people who love to eat will always be loved by the people, such as Su Dongpo and the surrounding food that was born because of him.
Biologist Darwin not only studies strange animals, but most importantly, he dares to eat them.When he was at Cambridge University, Darwin was a member of the "Food Club". They gathered once a week to try delicious delicacies such as owls, eagles, and crows.Later, Darwin followed the Royal Navy's Beagle, and wrote 368 pages of zoological notes over five years, collecting 1,529 specimens preserved in alcohol and 3,907 dry specimens.During this exploration, he had the honor of tasting armadillos, iguanas and giant tortoises, and said armadillos and ducks tasted similar.
Later, his career was called Bell Greers (Bear Grylls)The people inherited it.
The inspiration of dinner parties
Some writers’ inspiration for their creations comes from food. The poet Schiller always puts a box of rotten apples under his desk. It is said that this smell can remind him of the countryside where he grew up.
What can inspire is not necessarily what you eat or drink. Happy communication on the dining table can often give birth to a spark of wisdom.In ancient Athens, the core of urban life was a discussion or "drinking" (symposia) ，Literally means “Get together to drink.”Participants discussed philosophy, poetry and gossip while drinking wine with water for several hours.
There are two regulations that must be followed for this large-scale dinner: First, people lie together and form a circle or a square, so that there will be no obvious main seat in the venue, and everyone has equal status; Second, every round, everyone has to drink together, so everyone drinks at the same speed.Drinking is so fair and open, so that participants can let go of their worries and enjoy the joy of the dinner.
I don’t know how high it is to persuade people to drink and play at the wine table.
18Edinburgh of the century was the center of the Scottish Enlightenment. The Oyster Club at that time gathered elites in society, and its founders were economist Adam Smith and philosopher David Hume.Club members talk to other members every day, with all the topics involved.How boring is just chatting? So this group of foodies eat and drink a lot of oysters and red wine every day.
It’s better to save money by eating skewers on the street.
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Nowadays, many high-quality people are accustomed to going to a coffee shop like Starbucks, ordering a steaming cappuccino, taking out a thin Apple laptop, and then opening "Lianlian Watch".This has actually been tradition.Around 1900, Vienna café became the first choice for inspiration.
“It is actually a democratic club that everyone can enter for just a cup of coffee."Writer Zweig recalled this in his memoir "The World of Yesterday."At the price of a cup of coffee, you can enjoy the scarce heating at that time. In addition, you can browse various newspapers of the day, and then discuss with friends to keep up with the latest current and international news.Today's cafe is still the same, after all, there are free Wi-Fi。
However, in Eric Wiener's book, why are there no female geniuses and their food habits? The reason is that history has few records of this group, and the geniuses ruled by society have always been mostly white men.
