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Chapter 388 Cold Food
"And then, let's move on to this sandwich."

"The sandwich is almost as old as the cake, it just doesn't seem to have had a specific name originally."

"If we continue to dig deeper, we can learn more about the lore and history of the sandwich."

"To sum up, if you can learn more about this food when you eat a certain food, it means that you have learned more about the local culture through this food."

Chen Er turned the pen in his hand and said, "I always think that traveling is the best and fastest way to understand a country's culture."

"In tourism, it is the most convenient way to learn about culture and history through food."

Chen Er spread his hands and said, "Because food is the most indispensable thing for us human beings, and it is also the best inherited thing."

"People cannot live without food. Music, painting, and dancing are not necessities of life, but food is. Therefore, in my opinion, food culture is the best inheritance of all cultures, and it is the same in any country. .”

Chen Er looked at the blonde girl, "What do you think?"

With this sentence, although Chen Er seemed to be asking the other party, but the tone did not have the slightest sense of doubt.

And the blond girl was completely stunned.

I don't know if it's because Chen Er talked too much, she didn't react for a while, or what Chen Er said was too shocking, she was already shocked.

Anyway, she was already stunned in her seat, until everyone in the classroom stood up and applauded, she didn't realize it, and applauded with everyone.

Chen Er jumped off the table and returned to the podium.

"I'm from Huaxia, and what I know best is definitely the food culture of China."

"So, in the future courses, I will mainly talk about Chinese food culture."

The blond girl has completely changed her look, she looks a lot more serious than before.

"So, sir, what are you going to say now?"

Chen Er picked up a piece of chalk, "That depends on what you want to know."

"Wait a minute, let me see who among you raises your hand first. The one who raises his hand first can ask questions first."

As soon as Chen Er gave an order, the students in the classroom raised their hands one after another, and the first to raise their hands was the blonde girl just now.

She seemed to be very happy, she held her face up with a smile, and said after thinking for a long time, "In your country, is there any staple food that is the same as bread?"

Chen Er winked at her, indicating that this question was well asked.

The status of bread in the West is indispensable, just like rice, steamed buns or noodles in the East that can serve as staple food.

In China, the staple food is divided into many types according to different regions, not just rice.

Chen Er said, "If I have to introduce you to the staple food of China, I'm afraid I'll have to talk about it for three days and three nights, and I may not be able to finish it."

"So, instead of saying it a hundred times, it's better to see it with your own eyes."

When Chen Er said this, everyone seemed to suddenly become interested.

Chen Er erased the words on the blackboard, then gestured towards the door, "Let's go, let's find a place outside for class."

So, Chen Er walked out of the classroom with seven or eight students, and walked to the school cafeteria.

Along the way, it attracted a lot of extra attention.

After arriving at the cafeteria, Chen Er asked everyone to sit down first, and then he continued the class.

Staple foods are generally considered to be foods rich in carbohydrates and starches.In China, in addition to rice as the staple food, some areas in the north also use wheat products as the staple food.

So in China, when it comes to staple food, there are generally two defaults, one is food made of rice, and the other is food made of flour.

Whether it is food made of rice or food made of flour, there are so many types that it cannot be introduced in a few words.

Chen Er told the students, "Just like there are many different types of sandwiches, there are also many types of staple foods in China."

He spread his hands, and said helplessly, "Because something happened suddenly today, there are not many ingredients available in the cafeteria, and the staple foods that can be introduced today are only those few."

"Today, I will mainly introduce two staple foods - porridge and pasta."

"Congee can also be called porridge. In China, it is eaten for breakfast most of the time. As for pasta, it is similar."

However, due to the limitation of ingredients, Chen Er can't make too complicated ones. Even because it takes a long time to ferment flour, Chen Er can't even make the simplest buns and steamed buns.

The history of porridge in China is also very long. The relevant records about porridge were first found in Zhou Shu: the Yellow Emperor began to cook grains as porridge.

And porridge is not just an ordinary food from ancient times to the present, it is both food and medicinal value.Chinese people have always liked to use porridge as a tonic.Because the porridge is mild and delicate, the cooking method is suitable for most medicinal materials.

There are many types of porridge, from meat to vegetarian, from plants to animals.Whether it is medicinal materials or flowers, you can make porridge.

Common porridge, Chen Er felt that making it was not very interesting, so he thought about it and decided to make cold food porridge.

It originated from the cold food festival on the day when Duke Wen of Jin Dynasty Chonger sacrificed his hero Jie Zitui to burn his body.

During the Cold Food Festival, people are not allowed to use fireworks in their homes and must prepare cold food such as wheat porridge to commemorate the occasion.Cold food porridge is a festival food that has been handed down due to the Cold Food Festival.

The ingredients for cold food porridge are almost ready-made.

In addition to rice for porridge, almonds, inula, and coltsfoot are needed.

Almonds and rice are readily available in the cafeteria.

It's just that inula and coltsfoot are relatively unfamiliar terms to everyone.

Chen Er said to the blonde girl, "I remember that on the way to the cafeteria, there were many small chrysanthemums planted in the flower garden."

The blond girl nodded.

Chen Er handed her a small basket, "Then go and help pick some."

Convolvulus and coltsfoot are two of the more common flowers in the Asteraceae family.

Butterfly has a pungent and warm taste, and has the effects of moistening the lungs and lowering qi, resolving phlegm and relieving coughs.It is recorded in the "Ben Jing" that "it is most suitable for asthma and cough due to drinking evil caused by cold beam lung meridian".

"Materia Medica Yanyi" contains "coltsfoot flowers, in spring, people may adopt them to replace vegetables." Coltsfoot tender petioles and tender flower mosses contain protein and fat.Carbohydrates, multivitamins and multiminerals.

Therefore, coltsfoot is edible.

As for inula, it is also an edible flower.Moreover, inula has protective effect on immune liver damage, and its chemical component asparagus has anti-cancer effect.The roots, leaves and flowers can be used as medicine.

On the way to the cafeteria, Chen Er saw a lot of chrysanthemums blooming in the flower garden, among which were these two kinds.

(End of this chapter)