Eats evolution: Food fantastic story different history

Picks from “Food Historical” author: Amo Situ CITIC Publishing house

Initial cooking skill: Hot Shi Shaokao, animal’s stomach cooks in the fripe amnion or in

Man-eater’s logic: Eats the human does not waste, bone broken Cheng Zhen

Food culture: The staple food is deified, the corn is sun’s gift

Initial cooking skill

Controls the fire from humanity to invention cooking, the talent idea must surmount from the theory to the actual huge gap. Under some climates may live to be on fire quickly. In some places, if there is appropriate flint and pyrophorus, compared with having confidence to scratch to get angry. However ancient times time, primitive tribe ideal making a fire condition, cannot treat as the ceremonial fire to gather and to preserve. Today, we will still let fire burn for a long time, with by memento respected death of person, or celebration “Olympics Games”. In the past many places, retention kindling material and carried along, when need made a fire wants to be easier than and reliable. Some people have lost or have not mastered ignition skill – also perhaps they think that the fire is sacred, but does not dare to light. Why this is in the Anda isle of man and New Guinea’s Tasmania Tribe, when after the fire extinguishes, asks the fire to the neighbor tribe, but do not light reason. When stands night watch stems from Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy “the light of reactivating” ceremony, the Christians still knew stands night watch, extinguishes the fire again to use the straw to light, is a how serious matter.

Even if momentarily may obtain the kindling material, people also not necessarily may be used it easily the cooking. Only then part food may through burning down, the smoking, the roasting processes. The spot has lit a fire may also facilitate guard, warms up or drives away the insect and wild animal. Although in lacking the fuel place is very difficult to achieve, even the high tech equipment’s modernized kitchen is not convenient in, but this was still prepared delicacy food the good method. European gourmand Qiesi Tusi suggested that binds the dried codfish in the fig leaf, in addition the few fragrant flowers peppermint, admits in the ash fire, belches smoke until the leaf air burn. Burns down food seems like simple, actually has many changes, may rub the marinade juice on food, or spreads the seasoning which selects, then admits in the fire again. Perhaps this is the earliest cooking, made with it is still one of taste best foods, and this method applied certainly widely. An eternal tradition bakes the suburb banquet or the bonfire happy with the Western literature in most ancient one grand holiday relates together: Nestor commended Athena’s evening banquet in “Odyssey”.

The axe chopped to cow’s neck, the cow has dropped down. At this time, the women started to cheer celebration ……When the deep blood drops out, when cow died thoroughly, the people have cut open the corpse quickly, with took out the pin bone in the past equally, binds in fat all round, places under the raw meat, the command respect king lights the lumber, in the pouring the red wine. The young people hand takes five fingernail’s forks, gathers at the surroundings. They taste inside the part, thinks after the bone burns, the remaining sliver flakes, the string on the barbecue fork, places on the fire until to roast the sharp part completely ripe.

This kind was extrapolated that has the obvious shortcoming for the most primitive cooking skill: The procedure is monotonous, to needing the flame cooks in a covered vessel food which burns to be helpless. Requests the relaxed decomposition corpse; Needs the massive fuels. Does this to look like is very barbaric, when especially the meat is only the sketchy decomposition takes away to roast. When an Italian in 1910 toured the South America prairie, astonished in gaucho person in safe house “complete savageness” the eating meat way, they sat on the bough, was digging the drop blood’s meat with the knife.

Previously overcame these shortcomings’ methods, is makes the tray with the hot stone: With the fire heating stone, places in the stone to roast food again. This to food which these is wrapped inborn, for example has shell’s mollusk, or other when the thick textile fiber shell wild fruit and grain, are specially effective, this, food heating may maintain moist. Or, food may use the leaf to bind, admits Yu Huoli to roast again. In this cooking method, the stone is piled up in order to use the heat fully, this does not mean that the hot stone and ashes function is the same: If piles the stone on food, then their weights may also have an effect. If digs a scoop channel, then the scoop channel limits the air to be mobile, may reduce the quantity of heat to scatter the situation. Eliminates these questions most to reduce effort means that is with the appropriate leaf, the sod and animal’s fur makes the above thermal insulation blanket. To a rich venture spirit’s tourist, discovered that such cooking method is not difficult. Several years ago in the Cook island, Gugo•But•US Nair has demonstrated is binding with the leaf the cassava, the breadfruit, the sweet potato, the octopus, the potato, the suckling pig, the parrot fish and chicken, soaks in the common guayava juice, boils in the stone, the stone placed fills up in coconut shell’s pit to heat up. Some pits have used in 150. The coconut shell rubs after the banana tree branch lights.

In modern civilization, at least until recently, the people to the experience of hot stone cooking method, come from the open country burn the clam to dine together. In the 19th century later period and 20th century’s New England, this kind of early colonizer learned the meeting form to the Indian, is in vogue in the folk. In Luojiesi and Chinese horse Stan’s work “Merry-go-round”, described in the small town people have held “grand fever clam dining together meeting” the scene, the participant harbors the romantic, sincere or pure mood, appreciated in the memory the traditional good food, “passed pleasant time”. Is happy in Vince•In Huo Mo watercolor painting work, has strongly unfolded the food clam bakes the delicacy with total concentration the picture. The clam is dug from the sand, ignites with seashore’s drift log and seaweed, heating stone. After clam heating, the shell will open, to prevent the cooking liquor class comes out, the above clamshell must be complete, otherwise, loses the cooking liquor clam meat not to be delicious.

In the history, the leading role which the hot stone baked has initiated the production of fire pivot. This kind of invention has demonstrated the human brain originality, although has not contained any heating the tool, but digs the pit. The people build a stove with the stone, causes it to become the natural oven, the stove Chinese dress sails upstream, after the water is heated up, turned into the sauce pan or the sauce pan. This procedure is one kind of improvement, its importance is not inferior to now in the cooking history any technological innovation: It caused the people to understand the steam boiling, mastered the new cooking method, at least before then, the people fuzzily knew, may overbrims animal’s internal organs or the skin the water, hung on the fire, as heating vessel. Later some, the highly representative example, was in 1952, was discovered in Cork Reeve. The people in B.C. two millennium’s coal mines, turned on a water trough saw that around the water trough with the log strictly seals up, maintains certain altitude, caused the water unable to flow exits. Nearby fire pivot is builds with dry and hard soil block, the middle has one passage aisle which builds with the stone, can cause the air circulation. Light in Ireland, similar earth stove more than 4000. 34 under this kind of fire pivot, so long as the furnace fire is exuberant, and turns in the stove to burn the hot stone unceasingly, only uses for several hours, may cook rottenly the bulk bone. With this kind of method, can in a half hour, 70 gallons water heatings the boiling point. In uncommon situation, if fire pivot’s endophragm is the pottery clay makes, after undergoing the heating, the endophragm will turn into the ceramics, has very good impermeability. Or, the people will also smear fire pivot in the pottery clay, after the process burns down, causes the fire pivot to be firmer. (This article originates: NetEase history)