A brief history of food

How important is food? It is obvious during this epidemic that many stores closed down due to the epidemic. However, vegetable supermarkets have sprung up like mushrooms after a rain. Food is the most important thing for the people. No matter what the situation, people's livelihood issues are the most important. In the past two months, all Chinese people staying at home have become gourmets. They make cakes, cold noodles, and all kinds of delicious food at home. They share their recipes and experiences online, which is also a good time. experience. Eating has always been very important. Chinese people have a special preference for food. Once the "A Bite of China" was launched a few years ago, it gained a lot of fans. In the vast country of China, due to the different living environments of people, , have different requirements for food. The east is spicy, the west is sour, the south is sweet, and the north is salty. This is a general term. If it is broken down into more details, various provinces, cities and regions also have different cultural eating habits. From the earliest coarse grains to the current refinement of food, people have been constantly innovating and developing food that is more suitable for people's tastes. However, the development of food has a certain history. Some are produced in the evolution of nature, and some are processed by us to present foods with better taste and texture. The development of food has a long history, and the book "A Brief History of Food" will take us into the world of food and take a look at their development process. In the process of exploring the development of food, more delicious food is waiting for us.

In a book about food, maybe what we pay attention to at the beginning is how to make food, fish, meat and vegetables. There are too many things in the world that can become food, and we are constantly changing Improving food recipes to make them more delicious. Most food books will include simple dish ingredients, the types and amounts of seasonings required, as well as the sequence and cooking methods. This "A Brief History of Food" not only introduces hundreds of The cooking method of the remaining kinds of food is more about the origin of the ingredients. Tracing its history, we can have a deeper understanding of the changes in food as people's living habits change during this long history.

There are some differences in eating habits between Easterners and Westerners, but with the exchange of economic and trade and the exchange of people's ideas and culture, the differences in food culture have become smaller and smaller. The staple food of Chinese people is mainly rice and wheat, while the staple food of Westerners is mainly oats. This difference in food is no longer so detailed.

The introduction of each ingredient in the book will introduce its prehistory, origin and related characters. For example, there are records of aquatic creatures such as shrimps and crabs. Although there are no records of prehistoric cooking of shrimps and crabs, we can still get a glimpse of the position of shrimps and crabs in the ninth century BC from the oldest recipes in the West. In the book, we learn about the origin of shrimp and crab through various documents, as well as some of its development as a common food, as well as the nutrients it contains. Among aquatic products, lobster first belongs to the Western world and was developed in the West, while crabs must belong to East Asia. The book records some historical materials about crabs, and the most important thing is to introduce some shrimp and crab recipes. Most of the raw materials required for this recipe are available to us, and we can try to make them ourselves.

There is a popular joke that Cantonese people can eat anything, including Fujianese. Of course, this is a joke, but it also illustrates the wide range of Cantonese food ingredients. According to the book, when I was talking about insects, the first thing I thought of was the Cantonese people. Then I thought about it. Grasshoppers, locusts, dragons, blue species, ant islands are not only eaten by Cantonese people, people from other regions can also eat them. Silkworm chrysalis is a very famous dish, but I have never dared to try it.

Both tea culture and wine culture have a very long history in China. Chinese wine is produced by fermentation of crops. After a long period of precipitation, the stronger it is, the more fragrant and mellow it is. Most Western wines are The national wine, fermented from fruits, wine has a long history, and its origin and development in Western society can be traced back to a long time ago. In this chapter, we are introduced to the recipe for beef stew in red wine.

"A Brief History of Food" 100 kinds of food. In this brief history, each food traces its origin, historical culture and application in modern ingredients. It is equipped with recipes and illustrations. To a large extent it is a visual aesthetic. There are not just 100 kinds of food for human beings, but tens of millions. It is not even clear how many species and plants we use as food. The hundred kinds of ingredients recorded in this book are the most common ones. In the modern era where the cultural differences between the East and the West are getting smaller and smaller, people no longer stick to the framework when eating. This book traces the history of our common ingredients. The trajectory is changing under the influence of people's eating habits. The history of food is also part of human history. Food is the most important thing for people, and we will have more and more skills to innovate food cooking methods.