Literature on the Dinner Table: new menu for National Museum of Taiwan Literature
Literature on the Dinner Table: new menu for National Museum of Taiwan Literature
2022-10-10
A new project at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature aims to put “Literature on the Dinner Table.” A new menu at the Tainan Museum cafe gives visitors a taste of Taiwanese literature — a little more literally than usual. Many dishes are based on famous writings or reference authors’ culinary lives.
Golden yellow eggs are poured into a hot pan and sauteed into a delicious omelet.
Nearby, a chef spreads mashed potato on bread, following up with a squeeze of sauce and some salad leaves. Then it’s burger patties made of tofu and plant-based mock meat. This is how American-style lunch is served at the National Museum of Taiwan Literature.
Lin A-pao
NCKU Dept. of Taiwanese Literature
The idea comes from two essays by Liang Shih-chiu, “Tofu” and “McDonald’s.” The inspiration was that he said writing them was a bit like making hamburgers. So we made them into tofu burgers, following a plant-based diet.
The tofu burgers are inspired by “A Cottager’s Sketchbook,” a collection of essays titled after a place where Liang Shih-chiu once lived. After the burger, visitors can enjoy this “Red Treasure box” dessert – it’s based on carrot, with a lemon cream cheese icing, and it’s inspired by an essay called “Carrot Cake.”
Tsai Chu-erh
Author
I wrote about a conversation that I had with my late mother while I was making carrot cake. I first ate carrot cake at my friend’s home in London, i.e. in the West. I was studying there. It was something I had never eaten in Taiwan. I was really surprised by it.
Su Shuo-pin
National Museum of Taiwan Literature director
We launched this event to bring literature and food together, so that while we’re eating, we can understand how many people have imbued food with very profound meanings that will enrich our lives. The National Museum of Taiwan Literature wants to bring literature into our daily life.
The museum hopes its lunches will transmit Taiwan’s heritage in all its sweet, sour, spicy and aromatic glory. This literature project talks in mouthfuls, not soundbites.
臺灣文學館推"餐桌上的文學" 梁實秋名作入菜!
2022-10-10
國立臺灣文學館"餐桌上的文學"系列，又推出新餐點，以散文名家梁實秋的兩篇作品為靈感，來做出豆腐漢堡，還用梁實秋的住所名字，取名"雅舍小堡"。而另外一位作家的作品，則化為紅蘿蔔蛋糕，吃起來的口感，就是她與媽媽的情感連結。
熱鍋倒入金黃色蛋液，掌握火侯，煎出香噴噴的嫩蛋。
而旁邊的廚師，在麵包上抹上馬鈴薯泥、擠上醬料跟放入沙拉，最後放上用豆腐跟未來肉做的漢堡排，美式料裡上桌，但出餐的，是臺灣文學館。
[[成大台文所博士 林阿炮]]
“(取材)梁實秋的兩篇文章，就是豆腐跟麥當勞這兩篇文，靈感來源就是說它在製作的時候，跟那個漢堡的做法有點類似，所以我們就把他作的像豆腐漢堡，然後符合蔬食理念”
豆腐漢堡，取材散文名家梁實秋的作品，名字叫做"雅舍小堡"，就是梁實秋的住所名字。飯後還有這款特別的甜點，叫做紅色珠寶盒，以紅蘿蔔為基底，搭配檸檬奶酪糖霜，取材就來自"紅蘿蔔蛋糕"一文。
[[作家 蔡珠兒]]
“我寫的是我自己在做紅蘿蔔蛋糕的過程中，跟我已經去世的媽媽的對話，我在朋友家吃到這個紅蘿蔔蛋糕，那是在倫敦，等於在西方，那時候我去讀書，這個是那時候台灣沒有吃過的東西，我非常受到震撼”
[[國立臺灣文學館館長 蘇碩斌]]
“我們推出這樣一個的活動，就是利用文學的作品結合餐飲的形式，然後呢，我們就可以在吃東西的時候，不斷的了解到說，有多少人賦予食物非常深刻的意義，這會讓我們的生命更豐富，那文學館希望讓文學可以走入生活”
文學不只用文字、圖片呈現，更能把文中的香甜酸辣與感覺，做成美味餐點，民眾來參觀時，不妨來品嘗文學作品的好菜。
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