Advantages of China traditional cuisine: 1 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 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 was so scary to be called "Man Head" that people replaced the word "Man" with "Man" and wrote "Steamed Bread". Over time, Steamed Bread became the main food of northerners.
2 crystal cakes
crystal cakes are famous in Weinan, Shaanxi province, and are characterized by golden noodles and silver bands, which peel off crisp, cool tongue and ooze teeth, and are sweet and palatable.
It is said that Kou Zhun, the prime minister of the Song Dynasty, was an honest and fair official 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 51th 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 51 crystal-clear snacks.
On top of the dim sum, there is a piece of red paper, and a poem is neatly written: "The public crystal eye has a crystal heart, which can distinguish loyalty from traitors, and it is innocent and spotless." 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".
3 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.
once, while Zhang Yaxian was away, she scooped up a bowl of syrup and was about to drink it. Zhang Yaxian came, and Fusang quickly poured the syrup into the pig tank, hid it in the woodpile, and covered it with some chaff. A few days later, when Fusang held out the pig oil tank, the tank 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.
The oil used in some "foreign fast food" is different from the common vegetable oil traditionally used in China, because it is hydrogenated oil, that is, the oil produced by hydrogenating vegetable oil. Professor willett, director of the Department of Nutrition, School of Public Health, Harvard University, pointed out in 1991 that hydrogenated oil produced by hydrogenating natural vegetable oil is harmful to health! Because hydrogenated oil contains some trans fatty acids that do not exist in nature, trans fatty acids will affect human endocrine system and endanger health. Willett pointed out: "Epidemiological research on the relationship between the intake of hydrogenated fat and the risk of heart disease and diabetes shows that hydrogenated fat is worse than saturated fat".
foreign fast food and carcinogen-c poison. On April 24, 2112, the Swedish National Security Administration announced the latest research results, and found that French fries, hamburgers, crackers, roast pork and so on contain a lot of acrylamide. Because acrylamide damages the central nervous system, it can induce benign or malignant tumors, so some scholars believe that this explains the high incidence of tumors in western countries. On March 24, 2114, the US Food and Drug Administration announced the inspection results of 751 kinds of foods, which once again confirmed that French fries, potato chips, popcorn and fried chicken have the highest content of carcinogens. Cooking at home is in good condition, and fresh vegetables are the safest. Europe and the United States are different from China. Every kitchen has an oven, which is high-temperature cooking. The traditional diet in China is low-temperature cooking. Our rice, noodles and steamed bread are all made of water, which will not exceed 111 degrees Celsius, much lower than baking. Stir-fried dishes can be cooked in a short time, and the combination of high temperature and low temperature is not only beneficial to keep nutrients from being lost, but also meets the needs of surface sterilization and reduces the oxidation of oil. So the traditional cooking methods of China people are very safe.