the mouth is fragrant

my mouth is watering

I want to wear it

my forefinger is moving

the jade plate is delicious and delicious, and I can have a gluttonous meal. The phoenix marrow dragon liver has an endless aftertaste, and my lips and teeth are fragrant and delicious. My mouth is watering. Eight treasures and jade are delicious.

Words: smooth, crisp and tender. But not everyone has the same standard for food. In fact, food is neither noble nor cheap. As long as you like it, you can call it food. Something to look forward to before eating and have an aftertaste after eating. When food encounters mood, food is not only a simple taste feeling, but also a spiritual enjoyment. Food also reflects human civilization and progress.

Gourmet is not only food on the table, leisure snacks, all kinds of biscuits, cakes, sugar and other products, which are difficult to adjust, and each has its own flavor. From taste to visual enjoyment, it is called gourmet!

Explanation of words

1. Delicious food, "Mozi Ci Guo": "Today, it is not the case. The thick food is gathered by the people, thinking that it is delicious food, steamed food, fish and turtles."

2. Eat delicious food, "Six Contradictions of Han Feizi": "In today's family, it is also necessary to endure hunger and cold, and to be strong and hard-working. Although it is a military disaster and hunger, it is necessary to warm clothes and food." "The Book of Jin Fu Xian Biography": "I can't see luxury, but I am noble. In the past, Mao Jie was an official minister, and there was no one who dared to wear good clothes and food. "

3. New understanding of food, eating beautiful and healthy food.

4. Good food can make people feel happy.

5. Have a nice meal.

2 China Food Editor

Foreword

Cuisine

Different countries have long and short histories, large and small territories, strong and weak strength, large and small population, ethnic composition, religious beliefs, political nature and economic structure, so their food culture is different.

with the improvement of personal consumption level, everyone has a different concept of food, among which the special cases are the emergence of Chinese food and western food and their sought-after choices.

steamed bread

according to legend, Meng Huo, the owner of Nanman Cave in the south of Shu, always attacked and harassed him, and Zhuge Liang personally led his troops to conquer Meng Huo. Lushui area is sparsely populated, miasma is heavy and Lushui is poisonous. Zhuge Liang's men put forward a superstitious idea: kill some prisoners of "Na Man" and sacrifice their heads to the river god of Lushui. Of course, Zhuge Liang couldn't promise to kill the prisoners of "Nan Man", but in order to boost morale, he came up with a way: using flour and dough brought by the army, kneading it into a human head and steaming it as a sacrifice instead of "Nan Man" to worship the river god.

Since then, this kind of pasta has been handed down and spread to the north. But it's so scary to be called "Man Head". People replaced the word "Man" with the word "Man" and wrote "Steamed Bread". Over time, Steamed Bread became the main food of northerners, and the sale of steamed bread gradually changed to the purchase of supermarkets. Nowadays, there are also alternative positions such as the leader of convenience and supermarkets.

mung bean cake

eating zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival is almost no exception in all parts of the country. However, the traditional food

on the Dragon Boat Festival is not only Zongzi, but also mung bean cakes, such as Wuhan, Nanjing and Wuhu, so mung bean cakes are bound to be eaten on this day. People in Xi 'an also eat zongzi on this day, but it is indispensable to eat it with mung bean cake. People in Xi 'an give gifts to relatives and friends on the Dragon Boat Festival, and also send zongzi and mung bean cake together, which goes hand in hand. This is a custom with a long history. Maybe people talk less and know less. As early as the tenth year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (AD 1872), the commercial mung bean cake was introduced, which became a famous food in Xi 'an and Shaanxi together with crystal cake, and was famous far and wide. Xi' an is a Muslim community, and Hui and Han compatriots live in harmony. Hui people are good at doing small businesses, especially making small food in family workshops. Their halal mung bean cakes are very popular. Han people also do it, less. Previously, most of them were produced and listed before the Dragon Boat Festival. Since the reform and opening up, it has been sold all year round, and a number of new food enterprises have been added, and mung bean cakes are much more refined than before. Many new varieties have been added, such as jujube paste stuffing and nut stuffing, which have good taste and long aftertaste.

Crystal Cake

Crystal Cake is a famous spot in Weinan, Shaanxi Province. Its characteristics are

Crystal Cake

Gold-faced silver band, peeling and crisp, cool tongue and teeth, sweet and moist. Legend has it that Kou Zhun, the Song Dynasty official, was honest and fair, and won the hearts of the people. One year, Kou Zhun returned from the capital of song dynasty, Kyoto, to his hometown, Weinan, to visit relatives in the countryside, which coincided with his 5th birthday. The hard-earned villagers sent birthday peaches, noodles and plaques to congratulate him, and Kou Zhun held a birthday banquet. After three rounds of wine, Kou Zhun opened a delicate paulownia box, which contained 5 crystal-clear snacks. On top of the dessert, there is a piece of red paper, neatly written with a poem: "Public crystal eyes and crystal hearts can distinguish loyalty from traitors, and innocence is not stained with dust." The signature is Weibei laosou. Later, the chef in Kou Zhun also made this kind of dim sum, and Kou Zhun gave it a nice name according to its characteristics, called "Crystal Cake".

rock candy

according to legend, during the reign of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty, there was a girl named Fusang, who was the maid of a big sugar shop in Neijiang, Sichuan who advocated the Yaxian family. On one occasion, she

rock candy Sydney

scooped up a bowl of syrup while Zhang Yaxian was away, and Zhang Yaxian came. Fusang quickly poured the syrup into the pig tank, hid it in the woodpile, and put some chaff on it to cover it up.

A few days later, when Fusang held out the pig tank, it was full of many crystal-like things, which broke the entrance, crisp and pure and sweet, and its taste was better than sugar. Fusang talked about this strange phenomenon, and many people did the same thing. Because the sugar produced looks like ice and tastes like honey, people call it rock sugar.

jiaozi

jiaozi is a traditional food loved by the people of China. Its preparation method is to make a thin and soft dumpling skin with flour, then chop up fresh meat, cabbage, etc., mix it with seasoning, wrap it and cook it in a pot until jiaozi floats to the surface. It is characterized by thin skin and tender stuffing, delicious taste, unique shape and insatiable appetite.

jiaozi, whose original name was Jiaoer, was first invented by Zhang Zhongjing, a doctor in China.

at the end of the eastern Han dynasty, disasters were severe in various places, and many people were suffering from diseases. There is a famous doctor named Zhang Ji in Nanyang, whose name is Zhongjing. He studied medical books hard since childhood and learned from others, becoming the founder of traditional Chinese medicine. Zhang Zhongjing not only has a good medical skill, but also has a noble medical ethics. He has treated the poor and the rich seriously and saved countless lives. When Zhang Zhongjing was an official in Changsha, he often cured diseases for the people. One year, when the local plague prevailed, he built a cauldron at the entrance of Yamen, giving up medicine to save people, which won the love of Changsha people. After Zhang Zhongjing retired from Changsha to his hometown, he walked to the shore of the Baihe River in his hometown and saw many poor people suffering from hunger and cold, and their ears were frozen. He was very upset and determined to treat them. When Zhang Zhongjing came home, there were many people seeking medical treatment. He was as busy as a bee, but he always remembered the poor people with frozen ears. Imitating the way in Changsha, he asked his disciples to set up a medical shed and a cauldron of

delicious food (18 pieces) in an open space in Dongguan, Nanyang, and opened it on the day of the winter solstice to give medicine to the poor to cure their injuries.

Zhang Zhongjing's medicine is called "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction". Its method is to boil mutton, pepper and some cold-dispelling medicinal materials in a pot, then take them out and chop them up, make them into ear-shaped "Jiaoer" with flour bags, and then cook them in the pot and give them to patients begging for medicine. Each person has two charming ears and a bowl of soup. After eating Quhan decoction, people feel warm all over, their blood is smooth, and their ears get warm. After eating it for a while, the patient's rotten ears healed.

Zhang Zhongjing gave up medicine until New Year's Eve. On the first day of the New Year, people celebrate the New Year, and also celebrate the recovery of rotten ears. They cooked food for the New Year just like Jiaoer and ate it on the morning of the first day. People call this kind of food "dumpling ears", "jiaozi" or partial eclipse, and eat it on the winter solstice and the first day of the new year, to commemorate the day when Zhang Zhongjing opened a shed with snow dumplings in Zhenyuan to give medicine and cure patients.

It is nearly 18 years since Zhang Zhongjing, but his story of "Quhan Jiaoer Decoction" has been widely circulated among the people. On the winter solstice and the first day of New Year's Day, people eat jiaozi, and they still remember Zhang Zhongjing's kindness in their hearts. Today, we don't need to cure frozen rotten ears with charming ears, but jiaozi has become the most common and favorite food for people.

jiaozi-Snow Dumpling without cooking

Snow Dumpling is a specialty of linghu town, Huzhou City, while Zhenyuantong Snow Dumpling is the most authentic snow dumpling made by the traditional recipe of Linghu Lake and relying on pure hand. Zhenyuantongxue Dumpling is a traditional tea and food treasure, which is "white as snow and shaped like dumplings". Its inner embryo is like jiaozi's Melaleuca Cake, and a layer of snow-white powder made of rice flour and frosting is applied outside. It tastes crisp, sweet and salty, and it is an excellent tea and food snack.