Oyster: From the Christmas table? Queen?
Oysters are also called oysters. Enjoy? Sea milk? It is rich in protein and trace elements necessary for human body, and has extremely high nutritional value when eaten raw. It tastes more delicious with dry white wine. It is said that the French have loved oysters since the Middle Ages.
? Oysters at the Christmas table. Queen? . Without it, the Christmas dinner would not be perfect. Caroline, a housewife shopping in a supermarket in Marseille, told Xinhua News Agency.
Caroline said that oysters produced around Christmas are delicious. In France, not all families can usually eat oysters, but it is an indispensable dish on the Christmas table.
Pierre is the owner of a seafood supermarket in Marseille. According to him, two weeks before and after Christmas, oysters sold in supermarkets accounted for 40% of the annual sales.
According to French media reports, the mortality rate of oyster larvae is very high in recent years. Due to insufficient supply, the price of oysters rose by 30% around Christmas this year. In order to prevent theft and smuggling, French law enforcement agencies even used police to ensure the safety of oyster breeding bases and ensure the supply of holiday markets.
Truffles: From the Christmas table? Diamonds?
Truffle is a kind of natural fungal plant, which is called three delicious foods together with champagne and caviar. It grows underground, is not easy to be found, and has few producing areas, so it is relatively expensive.
When cooking, truffles are usually used as ingredients, sprinkled with butter, cheese or cream on pasta, fried with eggs and rice, or placed under roast chicken.
Frances, a middle-aged French woman who came to buy truffles in Rhone near Marseille, told reporters that truffles were on the French table? Diamonds? . She buys two every Christmas and eats them fresh, which makes the whole family very happy. Francis bought two pieces of black truffles, 80 grams in total, and spent 96 euros. She said that the price of truffles also increased slightly this year, and last year it was € 0/1,000 per kilogram/kloc-0.
Truffles require extremely high growth environment, and they cannot grow with slight changes in sunlight, water or soil. Truffles mostly grow in the roots of broad-leaved trees, and most of them are hidden 5 to 40 cm underground. At first, people used pigs to smell truffles, and now they are also training dogs to replace pigs.
Francis makes a special trip from Lyon, a city in central France, to Rona to buy truffles every Christmas. Provence is one of the most important black truffle producing areas in the world. Comparatively speaking, Rogne's black truffles are cheaper.
Foie gras: From the Christmas table? Essentials?
Foie gras is a traditional French food, which can be eaten in many ways. It can be served as an appetizer with hot toast, champagne or slightly sweet white wine. It can also be made into a main course with other ingredients and served with red wine.
A supermarket employee in Marseille told reporters that 250 grams of foie gras generally costs 80 euros, because it is expensive, and the sales volume is not large at ordinary times, and the supermarket purchases less. However, before Christmas every year, supermarkets should prepare sufficient supplies, and housewives who come to shop generally buy foie gras. Around Christmas, French supermarkets have set up special areas to display all kinds of foie gras and bread slices with foie gras.
A French housewife told reporters that she buys foie gras every Christmas, and eating foie gras is considered as a Christmas dinner. ? If I don't buy it, the children will come after me. She joked.
Although some nutritionists think that foie gras does not conform to the modern healthy diet, it is still deeply loved by the French. According to statistics, the production of French foie gras accounts for 75% of the global total.