Chinese Food Cooking and Chinese Food History

The Chinese culture is the oldest continuous civilizationbrains, roots and even flowers taste delicious!
in the world and throughout the ages, plenty as well asA popular Chinese method of cooking - stir-frying -
famine have helped to shape the character of onecould well have been the result of efforts to cook with
important aspect of the Chinese culture - the Chinesethe minimum of fuel in times of chronic fuel scarcity.
food recipes, Chinese cuisine. During prosperous years,Food, cut into small pieces or slices, is quickly stirred in
there was always an upper class who had enougha little hot oil over a few minutes of intense heat. Food
time and money to devote to the sampling of delightscooked in this manner has its natural juices sealed in
turned out by their culinary staff. These were thewhile the color, texture and flavor are preserved. It is
legendary multi-course banquets and feasts.also highly nutritious.
On the other hand, many times through China's history,Dairy products are practically unknown in Chinese
floods, drought and other natural disasters havecooking since cattle were more profitably utilized as
destroyed the crops and laid the country to a waste.draft animals in earlier times. So the main sources of
Adversity and necessity forced the people to seekmeat were pigs and poultry which were easily fed on
and use new sources of food. Today, the Chinese areswill and leftovers. They also occupied less space so
experts in the preparation of such exotic items as eels,that the majority of the land-area could be devoted to
frogs and snakes, besides making use of every ediblegrowing cereals; these certainly could feed more
part of animal and plant. When well-cleaned, correctlypeople than any number of cattle raised on the same
prepared and cooked with the right seasonings, tongue,area!