Yi Ya

The first chef to use blending to cook;

The first chef to open a private restaurant;

The first cook to take a bite before peeling a potato;

The first cook to cook rice and serve minced rice;

Yi Ya was a native of Qi during the Spring and Autumn Period. Cooking skills, running around, and finally heard that Peng Keng was in Qi State. Who is Peng Keng? Peng Keng is a very legendary chef in history. He is good at cooking health-preserving dishes. In order to get Peng Keng's true inheritance, Yi Ya was more active than Liu Bei who visited the thatched cottage three times. He apprenticed under him three times and finally learned Peng Keng's cooking skills. In a short time In a few years, Yi Ya became a first-class chef and could cook all major cuisines from the north and the south.

In 630 BC, Yi Ya opened a private restaurant in Qi State. It was precisely because of the restaurant that his cooking skills became famous far and wide. Once, palace officials came to Yi Ya's restaurant for dinner. After eating, he repeatedly praised Yi Ya for his superb cooking skills. When he returned to the palace, he quickly recommended Yi Ya. Duke Huan of Qi immediately invited Yi Ya to the palace and made a table of delicious food for himself. Duke Huan of Qi ate a lot, but there was nothing. I didn't feel bloated at all, especially after eating the southern cuisine cooked by Yi Ya. I was very satisfied and decided to let Yi Ya enter the palace and become his royal chef.

Yi Ya soon became the chef and managed the entire kitchen. He cooked meals for Duke Huan of Qi in different ways every day. Wei Ji, the beloved concubine of Duke Huan of Qi, contracted a strange disease. She was losing weight day by day and could hardly eat anything. All the famous doctors in the palace were helpless. Yi Ya remembered the cooking methods of the dietary therapy department that he had learned and quickly made a meal. The dish? Five-flavor chicken. Chang Wei Ji's appetite increased after eating it. At the same time, Yi Ya made chicken soup for her to drink. Chang Wei Ji quickly recovered as before, her face looked like spring. Qi Huan Gong was overjoyed, but Qi Huan Gong never expected that, Yi Ya not only cured his concubine, but also locked her stomach and heart, but Qi Huangong did not know it.

On a sunny day, Duke Huan of Qi had just finished a table of delicious food.

I joked: Yi Ya, since you came here, I have eaten all kinds of delicacies from the mountains and seas, and I have gained dozens of pounds, but there is only one kind of food I have never eaten, and I still don’t know what it is. smell. ?

Yi Ya: ?What food? ?

Qi Huangong: ?Human flesh, haha?.

The happiest thing in the world is that you just say a simple word, and others go through fire and water to help you realize it. This is the case with Yi Ya. No one expected Qi Huangong’s unintentional words, but Yi Ya did. Seriously, since Yi Ya became a celebrity of Duke Huan of Qi, he was not willing to be a cook again, but wanted to flex his muscles in the political arena. At that time, it was easy to get some human flesh, but Yi Ya felt that his loyalty could not be seen in the random human flesh.

Yi Ya finally decided to kill his 3-year-old son, and then cooked it in a pot, seasoned it, and made the soup. The whole process was the same as cooking game in ordinary times, all in one go. When Yi Ya’s wife found out At that time, Yi Ya had already put his son into a clay pot and made human flesh soup.

After tasting it, Duke Huan of Qi said: "Yi Ya, this soup is really delicious, and the meat is also very tender. Don’t know what ingredient this is? ?

Yi Ya: ?The last time I heard you talk about how you wanted to eat human flesh, I thought that ordinary human flesh must not be fresh, so I deliberately killed my 3-year-old son. Sent to you. ?

After hearing this, Duke Huan of Qi was both happy and surprised. He was happy that Yi Ya was rarely so loyal, but he was surprised that Yi Ya actually killed his own son.

In 645 BC, Guan Zhong could not afford to fall ill, but he was worried that after his death, Duke Huan of Qi would be bewitched by Yi Ya. Duke Huan of Qi came to visit Guan Zhong that day and asked him what he wanted to eat. Asking Yi Ya to do it, Guan Zhong said straightforwardly: "Then drive Yi Ya out of the palace!"

Qi Huangong was naturally reluctant to give up. Qi Huangong thought that Yi Ya was loyal and good at what he did. Cai Cai is indeed a rare chef in the world, but Guan Zhong said, how cruel can someone be who kills his own son? He does this just to let you reuse him. If he didn't have ulterior motives, who would be so stupid?

Like a revelation, Duke Huan of Qi finally dismissed Yi Ya from his post and drove him out of the palace before Guan Zhong died. However, Duke Huan of Qi could no longer eat dishes cooked by other chefs after Yi Ya left. , only two years later, Duke Huan of Qi recalled Yi Ya again. Not long after, Duke Huan of Qi was seriously ill and could not afford it. Yi Ya felt that the time had come, so he rebelled and blocked the palace of Duke Huan of Qi, preventing anyone from entering or leaving. Finally, Qi Huangong Duke Huan was starved to death.

After Duke Huan of Qi passed away, Yi Ya dominated Qi State. It was not until Duke Xiao of Qi came to power that the civil strife ended. However, Qi State was no longer the overlord of the Spring and Autumn Period. After Yi Ya failed, he fled to Pengcheng and began to start again. He opened a small restaurant until he died of illness.

Although Yi Ya said that cooking rice and serving rice would harm the country and the people, and these practices were indeed reviled by later generations, Yi Ya was indeed very accomplished in cooking. His therapeutic dishes have been passed down in Pengcheng to this day. He created fresh soups and fish belly with mutton, and even the current ham was created by Yi Ya, which was called ham at that time. In addition, Yi Ya's therapeutic dishes have the effects of health care, beauty, and longevity, so Yi Ya is a chef. He is the top in this industry, and people call him the ancestor of the chef industry.