Chaoshan Chaoyang, Huilai and other places also call eggplant "charming", while Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai call it "Russell". Is there any connection between Lisu and Russell? Why do you call it that?
White eggplant is rare in the north, because the closer to the cold place, the darker the color of eggplant.
Braised eggplant with ham. For details, please refer to the appendix "Lin Ziran Boutique Chaozhou Cuisine Recipe" in Volume II of Chaozhou Cuisine World.
I. Diversity
The scientific name of eggplant is eggplant, which belongs to the genus Panicum in Solanaceae. Eggplant varieties are mainly purple and green, and white is rare. Generally speaking, the closer to the cold north, the thicker and shorter its shape and the darker its color.
Purple, green and white are common eggplant, and white eggplant is the main traditional eggplant in Chaoshan.
Spherical green eggplant in Thailand.
Yangzhou University has an "Eggplant Museum", which is said to have collected 400 kinds of eggplants:
From top to bottom are Angela eggplant, yellow meteor eggplant, black vine eggplant and pumpkin eggplant.
Second, culture.
1 Jia, and
Eggplant originated in India and was introduced to China through the Silk Road around the Han Dynasty. Yang Xiong, a writer in the Western Han Dynasty, was born in Chengdu, Shu County. In his masterpiece "Shu Du Fu", he described the products of his hometown and said: "Winter bamboo shoots are rich in old vegetables." Jia is actually a transliteration of Sanskrit, which is eggplant. However, many people still don't understand. Duan in the Tang Dynasty said in Youyang Miscellanies: "Eggplant, the word eggplant, is the name of the lotus stem. I don't know where I came from ... I asked Zhang Zhou, Foreign Minister of the Ministry of Industry, about Jiazi's story, and Zhang Yun said, "A lost Soviet, ..." "I don't know where the basis is.