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When he was young, he would eat dozens of crabs in one meal. In middle age, he "sees and falls in love with the beauty of fruits and vegetables" and realizes that "where the food culture is more profound, the more people love vegetables." Only fruits and vegetables can express the rhythm of the seasons and be closer to life and nature. Unlike meat, which has a strong meaty aroma, vegetables are light and tasteless, showing a more bland aesthetic that requires careful tasting and careful tasting. Green onions, bamboo shoots, bitter gourds, pumpkins, green plums, prunes, sugar cane, oranges... These green fruits and vegetables naturally represent health and environmental protection, and embody the essence of Chinese cuisine. However, they are always a supporting role and are not taken seriously. In Jiao Tong's writing, they have become the protagonists of repeated tastes. 66 Articles are biographies of 66 kinds of fruits and vegetables, telling about their food, emotions, life, and culture, from ancient times to the present, from the inside to the outside, from books to the fields, from the tip of the tongue to the heart.

This is a 200,000-word love letter written over 32 years. As the father of two daughters, he is an ordinary man, but he is as affectionate as the sea. Jiao Tong has devoted half his life to cooking practice to care for the women in his life and record love and growth with the finest details. The book is divided into two parts. The first part is in order of the growth time of his daughters. It writes about his life and insights from different family dishes. In the company of Japan, he witnesses his daughter's growth with love and delicious food. The second part is about the record of the birth of a child when he was a first-time father and his feelings at that time. It is lyrical, affectionate, delicate, dense and clumsy. Time passed by, and the food was no longer important. The father and daughter held hands and went to a restaurant to eat, and then walked home holding hands. The air was filled with happiness.