"Taste of Taiwan" Author: Jiao Tong Publisher: Eryu Culture

Introduction

With Taiwanese local cuisine as the protagonist of this book, the author presents the taste and story of each Taiwanese dish through words based on his personal experience. Each theme article not only talks about the taste of the food itself and the differences in cooking methods in different places, but also uses each Taiwanese delicacy to recall the people, events, and things that have run away. Readers can learn about Taiwanese cuisine, historical origins, diverse cultures, lifestyles, and emotions belonging to Taiwanese people from this book. It is the first food culture book in Taiwan that describes and depicts the taste of Taiwan.

This book contains articles on 50 Taiwanese delicacies, including oyster omelet, meatballs, fried rice noodles, ginger duck, braised pork rice, danzai noodles, white soup pig's feet, tilapia, etc., and invites painter Li Xiaoqiang to draw pictures to satisfy the readers' visual and taste buds imagination.

To allow readers to personally taste the delicacies mentioned by the author and experience the flavor of Taiwan, this book not only provides store information at the end of each article, but also classifies the delicacies of each region into north, central, south, and east, and lists them in tables at the end of the book.

About the Author

Jiao Tong

Founder of the "Eat and Drink" magazine. Born in Kaohsiung in 1956, he studied drama and wrote and directed stage plays performed in Taipei. His published works include poetry collections "Ferns", "Roaring City", "Insomnia", "Complete Aphrodisiac Recipe", "Youth Specimen", "Jiao Tong Poetry Collection: 1980-1993", and essays "I Encountered a Caterpillar", "The Last Round Dance", "On the Edge of the World", "My Sexual Affairs", "Gluttony", fairy tale "The Journey of Crow, Butterfly, A-Qing", and essays "Drama in the Early Post-War Taiwan" and "Street Movement in Taiwanese Literature: 1977 ~ End of the Century", etc. More than 20 kinds of works, and his poems have been translated into English, Japanese, and French and published overseas. He has edited more than 30 annual poetry anthologies, novel anthologies, essay anthologies, and various themed anthologies. Jiao Tong has been engaged in literary communication for a long time. He is currently the editorial advisor of the World Chinese Media Group, the chairman of the Taiwan Food Culture Association, and an associate professor of the Chinese Department of National Central University.