A pianist who doesn't love food is not a good writer. This sentence cannot be used to describe Zhao Yinyin more appropriately.
As a pianist, Zhao Yinyin has a world-class reputation.
As a gourmet, he has made friends with chefs from Michelin restaurants all over the world. There are 5 kitchens in his home, and he acts as a "family cook" for his wife Chen Shugan as an actor.
At the same time, Zhao Yinyin also has the natural sense of humor of the Northeast people, and has shown his narrative attributes in programs such as "Tucao Conference".
Recently, Zhao Yinyin, who served as the recommendation officer in the gourmet variety show "Fresh Cook 100", gave his first TV variety show.
On the 26th, Zhao Yinyin accepted an interview with a reporter from Qilu Evening News.
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Zhao Yinyin, who has so many international awards, is a famous world-renowned pianist.
And what makes people more curious is that Zhao Yinyin is still a world-class professional gourmet.
He is a Le Cordon Bleu gourmet of the French Champagne Association. He serves as the life-long president of the French Chefs Association Greater China. He has learned cooking skills with the eight-Michelin-star Italian chef Bonbana, and he can also cross more than half of the world in search of good ingredients. .
Dong Keping, the chief planner of "China on the Bite of the Tongue", referred to Zhao Yinyin as "the United Nations on the Bite of the Tongue."
Zhao Yinyin said that his one-year schedule is clearly divided: he spends five months preparing for music work, and he will become a professional gourmet in the remaining seven months. “Go to all kinds of food and drink around the world and visit my chef. Friends, look for rare ingredients."
This time participating in the gourmet variety show "Fresh Cook 100", is the first TV variety show of Zhao Yinyin.
""Fresh Kitchen 100" is a very different food show, because most of the food shows focus on the food itself, or exploring the store, or competing cooking skills. But "Fresh Kitchen 100" offers us Another dimension of food, let me see the personality charm of young people who are keen on cooking, so that the audience can feel the temperature behind the food, that is, the sincerity of the cook."
这世上The pianist is not rare, and there are also many gourmets, but it is probably rare in the world to be able to study both at the same time like Zhao Yinyin.
How could Zhao Yinyin, who has been learning piano since childhood, have a connection with food? Behind this is a story from hunger to healing.
"I have been very greedy since I was a child, but I was born in 1972. A person like me who was so greedy happened to run into an era when supplies were extremely scarce, so I was negatively negative and had a positive attitude towards food. It’s an inescapable feeling. Me and food were originally a supply-demand relationship, and there was really no food at that time.”
When studying at the Juilliard School in the United States, Zhao Yinyin was most afraid of the holiday.
"Because as soon as there is a holiday, those of us with full scholarships do not have a canteen to eat. As poor international students, we don’t have much extra pocket money, so we can only cook our own food."
At that time, Zhao Yinyin, who was shy in his pocket, found that American chicken breasts cost nearly seven yuan, and the chicken wings were less than three cents, so he bought a lot of chicken wings to study various dishes.
"I will marinate the wing tips into various flavors, both spicy and sweet, and then use this to exchange beer with my Japanese classmate and instant noodles with my Korean classmate."
Slowly Zhao Yinyin discovered that cooking has changed from a simple hunger to a cure, and it has become his hobby.
Friendship with Michelin restaurant chefs from all over the world has allowed Zhao Yinyin to enter the core circle of the international gastronomy circle, and the music link behind this has played an indispensable role.
Zhao Yinyin, who performed abroad at the time, discovered that there was a gourmet list called Michelin, so he wrote an E-mail to order a table. After many days, the other partyI replied that the table had been booked half a year ago.
Zhao Yinyin, who was not discouraged, continued to reply that he had left two tickets to the chef for his performance at the National Concert Hall in Paris. As a result, he immediately received a warm response from the chef.
"He said that he and his wife are deep classical music lovers. Although the restaurant is fully booked, the kitchen can work overtime to make a table for me. I only discovered at that time that French chefs used themselves as Artist.”
Relying on the chef’s method of reserving performance tickets, Zhao Yinyin quickly became buddies with the Michelin restaurant chef, and was out of control since then.
Debuting for nearly 30 years, Zhao Yinyin’s chef friends have spread all over the world in Michelin restaurants.
When the French Chefs International Gourmet Club came to China as the world's largest professional chefs association to open a branch, I thought of inviting Zhao Yinyin as its life-long president.
Popular Newspaper·Qilu One Point Reporter Liu Yuhan
