Deipnosofisti, dotti a banchetto

Scene dal Simposio dalla Tomba del Tuffatore

This book is a collection of conversation made during the banquet offered by the rich roman Larense(II sec AD).

Dominant themes are linked at the food in all possible form: for example on what was the best recipe for cook soup or perfect mix for wine and water.

"... he plays on homonymy of optòs, cooked and visible, and claimed to joke that the raw fish as you can see is optòs"

Laso da Ermione

《锄禾（chú hé）》

锄禾日当午，

Farmers weeding at noon
汗滴禾下土，
Sweat down the field soon
谁知盘中餐，
Who knows food on a tray

粒粒皆辛苦。
Thanks to their toiling day

《七步诗（qī bù shī）》—— 曹植

煮豆燃豆萁，豆在釜中泣。
Cooking beans on a fire kindled with bean stalks. The beans weep in the pot.
本是同根生，相煎何太急！
Originally born from the selfsame roots. Why so eager to torture each other!


【翻译】煮豆子时把豆茎当作燃料，豆子在锅中哭泣。我们本来是同胞兄弟，为什么你那么急迫地加害于我呢？

曹植 (CAO Zhi, 192 – 232) was a Chinese poet during the late Eastern Han Dynasty and Three Kingdoms period. His poetry style, greatly revered during the Jin Dynasty and Southern and Northern Dynasties, came to be known as the jian'an style.

Cao Zhi was also the son of the powerful warlord Cao Cao. Together with his elder brother Cao Pi, they were the strongest contestants for their father's position. Cao Pi eventually succeeded Cao Cao in 220 and within a year declared himself the first emperor of the Kingdom of Wei. Like many powerful families, tension among brothers was high. In his later life, Cao Zhi was not allowed to meddle in politics, despite his many petitions to seek office.

The Raw and the Cooked

the original cover, the english edition's one and the picture of the writer

The Raw and the Cooked is one of the seminal works of structuralist anthropology, and probably the best known of all of Lévi-Strauss' works. It begins by looking at one Bororo myth and ends up examining a whole collection of myths from tropical South America. It is not the analysis of the myths themselves that is important, however, but rather the methodology of the analysis, where Lévi-Strauss sets out the basic principles of a structural approach to mythology.

西游记（xī yóu jì) written by 吴承恩

a picture representing the novel

 

The novel depicts the stories happening during the Journey from Xi’an (the capital of Tang Dynasty) to India. Four people (Xuanzang 玄奘, Sun Wukong 孙悟空, Zhu Bajie 猪八戒,  Sha Wujing 沙悟净) made this trip. The aim of the trip was to get the Buddhist Sutras and bring them back. On their way, they met lots of difficulties and demons, who want to cook and eat Xuanzang so as to live forever.