However, unlike the starting point of historians, the biggest reason why Hedgehog chose the Song Dynasty was that it was probably the dynasty with the most food in ancient times. If you travel through the past, you won't have to worry about eating and drinking in the Song Dynasty.
What? If you don't believe me, why don't we get on the time machine and have a look?
First stop, let's go to Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty. Various cooking techniques developed and matured in the Song Dynasty, and Tokyo in the Northern Song Dynasty was a well-deserved gourmet paradise at that time. There are forty or fifty restaurants in the picture of Riverside Scene on Qingming Festival alone, which can be called a gourmet street.
There is such a record in Tokyo Dream Volume III, "There are doors everywhere, and there are teahouses and restaurants. Market brokers often only buy food and drink in market stores, not vegetables. "It means that there were too many restaurants at that time, and the average family had a little foundation. Just like we modern people, we only go to restaurants to buy food and drink, and we don't even prepare food at home.
Moreover, restaurants at that time could not only eat in the lobby, but also order takeout. Surprise! "Call every hour" and "Duh, you can do it". Understand the Tokyo takeaway errands business. Sharp-eyed historians also found a restaurant buddy who was delivering takeout to other people's homes on the riverside in Qingming Festival.
It is said that even Zhao Gou, the emperor's father at that time, had a fixed take-out list ... It seems that everyone likes to eat flies in restaurants. Therefore, even if we are not lucky enough to cross into ordinary people, the restaurants in the Song Dynasty will not let you down.
Then, if we are lucky enough to cross the wealthy businessmen and landlords, there will be more delicious food to choose from. The most important thing is that there must be a beautiful young cook in your family at this time, waiting for your disposal at any time to satisfy your tricky taste.
What? Don't! Then you are really out. What are you still doing? Go get it. In the Southern Song Dynasty, rich families were standard cooks, and there were no cooks at home, so they didn't show their faces when they went out for parties.
By the way, remember to bring enough money. The chef here is an extremely tall profession. The average chef is not only young and beautiful, but also professionally dressed. When preparing the banquet, you brought a full set of platinum and silver kitchenware, each with its own duties and high professionalism, no less than the customized service of high-end western restaurants.
Of course, the menu prepared by such a professional chef will not be simple. For example, just this "sheep head label" in the menu needs 10 sheep heads. It turns out that in master chef's eyes, a sheep's head only has a few tender pieces of meat on its face, and all other parts are slag.
Such a banquet with high standards and high expectations will definitely make you earn enough face in front of the guests.
Wait, you said you didn't like these local tyrants who wasted food and thought they were too vulgar. It seems that this guy is a young man of literature and art, so you must like the gourmet god we are going to talk about next.
One of hedgehog's favorite ancient literati is Su Dongpo. Why? Because of grounding gas. Full of human fireworks. If you can eat a bowl of elbow cooked by this male god through the past, it will be similar to the meal cooked by Huang Lei in Life of Desire.
The great god Dongpo wrote many poems about food in his life, and also invented many foods, the most famous of which is Dongpo Meat. People in the Song Dynasty didn't eat pork, but modern people loved it. There is a saying in the Book of Rites that "gentlemen don't eat pork", which means that gentlemen don't eat pork. At that time, Su Dongpo was demoted to Huangzhou. After discovering that the price of pork is extremely cheap, he specially made a song "Ode to Pork" to promote pork (pig: thank you ...).
When Su Dongpo took office in Hangzhou, he was warmly welcomed by the local people because of his incorruptibility and excellent personal charm. The people sent him a lot of pork. After receiving these pork, he personally made a pork cooking recipe in his small kitchen, simmered it into crispy and delicious, fat but not greasy braised pork, and shared it with everyone.
This is the origin of "Dongpo Meat".
How's it going? Having said that, have you found that the food culture of the Song Dynasty is not bad at all compared with the present, so you can safely cross it ~ See you next time ~
refer to
Song dynasty chefs on the tip of her tongue
The great song dynasty on the tip of her tongue
The Innovation of Diet in the Great Song Dynasty
A day in the capital of song dynasty
The "Tide" Life of People in Song Dynasty