Peng Keng, the third son of Lu Zhongjia, was a culinary artist in the era of Emperor Yao. Often appreciated by emperor Yao, it was named Dapeng country. The former fief was Pengcheng. There is an ancient well at the northern foot of Xuzhou, which is said to be used by Pengkeng. Peng Keng's cooking is superb. Qu Yuan's Tian Wen said, "Peng Keng poured wine for the emperor." Before the Han Dynasty, pheasants were called pheasants. Lv Hou came to power in the Han Dynasty, so he changed it into a pheasant. The mountain chicken soup in Pengkeng is delicious, and Yao Di likes it very much. This Peng Keng is the first chef in China.
Yiya, also known as Diya, was a famous witch and cook in the Spring and Autumn Period. He is good at frying, boiling, roasting and roasting. He is also an expert in seasoning. His dishes are sweet, sour, salty and delicious, and they are very popular in Qi Huangong. Qi Huangong was the first overlord in the Spring and Autumn Period. He used to be "the nine princes, the first conqueror in the world". However, in his later years, he was ignorant, eating, drinking and having fun. Tired of delicious food, he is whimsical and wants to enjoy the taste of human flesh. It has been recorded that "Fuyiya wears vulgar spices and says", but the taste of babies is not appreciated. "。 So steam the first one and offer it to the public. "The king wants to eat the baby, but the courtiers don't eat it, which means disloyalty and will be killed at any time; If we do this, it will be disastrous to find the baby in other people's homes. In desperation, Yi Ya decided to kill her eldest son. Qi Huangong, the bad king, was very happy and gave Yiya some power. When Qi Huangong was ill in bed, Yiya blocked the palace gate, built a high wall, trapped Qi Huangong in the palace and starved to death. 67 days ago, the body was put on the bed, and the maggots climbed out of the palace without anyone noticing. In the past, defenders of feudal rulers always condemned Yiya as a "son-killing and flattering" sinner, but did not condemn Qi Huangong, the mastermind, which was obviously unfair.
Yi Yin, the prime minister of Shang Dynasty, was a famous chef in Shang Tang, and he had the reputation of "God Chef". Legend has it that a woman in the Xin family picked a mulberry tree from an empty mulberry tree and gave birth to a child for the Xin family. He ordered a person to raise a child. The cook brought up the baby and named him Zhi, also called Aheng. Thanks to his adoptive father's words and deeds, Yi Yin's cooking skills are also improving. During his tenure, Xin was engaged in the catering industry and was good at cooking and knife work. Here, in order to be close, Chen told his general plan of governing the country again, picked up the chopping block, cooked a bowl of goose soup and made fish sauce for him. Therefore, he must have the opportunity to talk with Tang Tang and compare the ways of governing the country with his cooking skills. Shang Tang attached great importance to his proposal and appointed him as Prime Minister.
Taihe Palace, a famous chef in Zhuan Xu in the late Spring and Autumn Period, is good at aquatic dishes, especially grilled fish. Wu's son Ji Liao succeeded to the throne. Ji Guang, the son who should have succeeded to the throne, paid tribute to the military commander Zhuan Xu in order to get rid of Ji Liao. Knowing that Liao loves to eat fish, Zhuan Xu took Taigong as his teacher at the shore of Taihu Lake, studied cooking art for three months, and finally learned to cook fish. Liao wanted to eat this delicious dish so much that he came to a family dinner in Ji Guang. Zhuan Xu stabbed the dagger into the belly of the roasted carp, used the opportunity of serving to approach Ji Liao, and stabbed him to death on the spot. Zhuan Xu was also a chef who was killed by the guards with a knife. His son Ji Guang seized the throne, and a generation of famous chefs who cooked fish became the victims of the battle for the throne. During the Western Han Dynasty, the Zhuo family specialized in treating waxy stomach. Her belly is made of lamb belly, usually in October of the lunar calendar. Boil the soup first, wash the scalded sheep, and then
Tang Muzong's Prime Minister Duan Wenchang is very picky about his diet. He once wrote 50 chapters of Xiao Wei the Pipe. This book is called The Book of Songs because he used to be a civil servant in zouping county. The zouping county Public Food Charter edited by his jokes recorded many precious and famous dishes at that time, many of which recorded their own delicacies. Duan Wenchang's kitchen is called "Yajiantang". When Duan Wenchang stayed in a hotel on business, he called the kitchen "Hangzhen Hall". In charge of the daily work of "Lian Zhen Tang" and "Hang Guan Zhen", what the ancestors ate every day, how to cook raw materials and how to cook pickles were all under the command of the old lady, and the female chef and apprentice passed on their skills. During the 40 years of Duan Fu, the female chef only selected 9 maids from 100 to inherit the skills, the food in Youyang Za. She is also famous with a surname. In order to respect her, she was called the ancestor of the restaurant and said that she was the ancestor of Duan Dad's kitchen.
Sister Liu, according to Youyang's miscellaneous articles, there is a female chef Liu Niangzi in the palace. Before Song Gaozong ascended the throne, she cooked in Zhao Gou. Her cooking always satisfies the emperor. According to the regulations of the palace, the officials in charge of the emperor's diet are businessmen. He can only be a man and a five-product official. However, Liu Niangzi is a woman and cannot be an official. However, the palace people often call her "a stone millet still flowing." Liu Nianzi was the first famous court chef in China.
Song Wusao, a famous folk chef in the Southern Song Dynasty, fled from Kaifeng to Hangzhou. Everyone called her sister-in-law Song Wu because her husband's surname was the fifth in the Song Dynasty. At that time, many Zhongyuan people fled to Hangzhou from the north, and it was difficult for officials and people to return to their hometowns. They want to taste homesickness to solve it. Sister-in-law Song Wu opened a small restaurant outside Qiantang, specializing in fish soup. Because of its traditional Bianjing flavor, it can attract foreign tourists. One day, Emperor Gaozong Zhao Gou visited the West Lake by boat. He once tasted fish soup, which made him famous. The price of fish soup in Sha Song has doubled. More and more people buy fish soup. The female chef living in a foreign country suddenly became rich, and people regarded her as "the grandmaster of the old fish". Fang Hengtai has a poem saying, "There are five willows on the shore of Xiaobo Lake. Cast a net to catch fish, sour taste loves silver knives, and river carp does not agree with General Luo. " Some people say that the wicker fish he praised is the mulberry fish soup of the Song Dynasty.
According to the story, Dong said: During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Cao Nengkai of Fujian began to drink delicious food because there was a skilled chef Dong at home. The Cao family hosted a family banquet to entertain the guests. The food at the banquet must be cooked by Dong himself to be delicious. Later, in the same year of Cao, someone went to Sichuan as a governor, lacking a decent cook. Cao wanted to send Dong to Sichuan, but Dong refused to say, "He is also a famous soldier, so he came to be an official and supervise mortals." Can he enjoy the chef's blessing in heaven? "Cao was furious and kicked Dong out, and Dong followed. From then on, people called Dong a kitchen star.
Wang Xiaoyu was the chef of Yuan Mei's family during the Qianlong period. She is a skilled and experienced cooking expert. The smell of his cooking spread ten paces, and everyone who smells it wants to eat it. He has done a lot of research on cooking skills and published a series of high comments. These technical opinions have a great influence on Yuan Mei. The reason why Yuan's "Renewal" is very long is because of Wang Xiaoyu's insight. Yuan Mei likes Wang Xiaoyu and is very strict with Wang. After Wang's death, Yuan Mei wrote an article entitled "Menu in the Garden" for this outstanding chef. Wang Xiaoyu was the only famous chef in ancient China who was handed down after his death.
In addition, Zheng Fan, a nun of the Five Dynasties, created a landscape platter of Wangchuan Xiaoxiang. In the early Qing Dynasty, Dong Xiaowan was good at making cakes, Sun Chunyang smoked fish when he was dry, and ginger was a "ten pig's head", and the south of the Yangtze River was mixed with sturgeon locusts. The monk is making mixed tofu soup, and the monk is from Wuhu who makes tofu skin.