Chapter six hundred and sixty second preparation competition
One of the necessary principles for the emergence of rich and diverse cuisine is the richness of products. The richness of products is essentially inseparable from the richness of species.
Just like a Chinese, it is difficult to understand how to cook without onions, ginger and garlic.
Therefore, it can almost be seen that the closer you get to lower latitudes, the more diverse the cuisine becomes, and there are even many unheard of spice varieties.
In addition to the latitude relationship, it must also provide a sufficient platform for intersection, allowing ingredients from all over the world to collide.
If you only stick to one place, there will indeed be delicious food, but it is usually more monotonous and becomes a "local taste".
It's like the hot and sour taste in Southeast Asia, which is very good, but apart from this cuisine, there seems to be no other more impressive food. This is not because the products are not rich, but because of the lack of communication. The reason for this is essentially
National borders and transportation restrictions.
Third, a period of prosperity is needed. People need to live and work in peace and contentment before they can satisfy their appetites.
Looking at the global map, only China meets these three conditions.
It is vast and at the same time rich in products. Although it is not said that you can live and work in peace and contentment all the time, every dynasty has at least a certain period of time.
Looking at the white bears again, the latitude is too high, most of them are in Siberia, and the same is true in Canada.
As for Chou Country, its latitude is nearly 20 degrees higher than that of China. It barely meets the first condition. However, it has a short history and cannot meet the third condition at all. Moreover, due to its colonial nature, Chou Country’s taste is essentially from high altitudes.
Latitudes transferred from Europe.
Further down, no one satisfies the third condition.
Therefore, China is unique, and every place has its own special cuisine. However, China’s vast national borders give these cuisines unlimited possibilities and variety.
Bi Fang took a sip of water and lay down on the ground with satisfaction. There were several half-eaten big fish scattered beside him, which looked like the leftover leftovers of brown bears in Alaska.
Only they have the luxury of eating only the fatty fish belly and discarding the other parts.
All the fish belly meat has been eaten by Bifang, leaving only the less fatty fish. With the current weather in the Arctic, there is no need to worry about it going bad if left out for a day or two.
If there is still a good harvest tomorrow, these will be kept forever, and the limited stomach should be reserved for high-calorie foods as much as possible.
Looking at the comments in the live broadcast room, I found that many viewers were still discussing the strong taste of pickled puffin, and I couldn't help but smile, feeling the pleasure of succeeding in a prank.
Judging from the history of human beings entering the cold zone, the taste genes have not evolved to adapt to this "deliciousness" in the body. Only those who grew up eating snacks can form customary adaptations. However, as life improves, people who can accept it
It will only become less and less.
Even if it is canned herring, with the improvement of economic life, many locals are not able to eat it anymore.
"The Inuit still eat puffins, but one kind of puffin, the great auk, has become extinct. The last specimen of the great auk exists in the form of a pickled puffin, which can be regarded as a piece of human history.
Witness it.”
Bi Fang stood up, patted the snow on his body, and prepared to start digging for a shelter tonight.
Today's night was quite good. The temperature only dropped to minus 30 degrees, not too low. There was even an aurora, with light green ribbons floating in the night sky, giving a good view.
The Northern Lights are quite strong, and the snow is cold, but the hearts of the audience are always boiling, watching the Northern Lights fluttering all over the sky, like the souls of angels shaking.
Historically, people were very afraid of aurora.
Especially for the local Sami people in Northern Europe, their legends about the aurora are more scary stories.
For example, there is a legend that children should not see the aurora because it will take their soul away. There is also a saying that the aurora will fly across the sky with an ax and kill anyone who laughs at it.
Therefore, sleds traveling under the bright aurora are not allowed to use bells to avoid disturbing the aurora and causing misfortune.
But in modern times, except for possible solar storms that cause changes in the magnetic field and poor mobile phone signals, the aurora has become a beautiful scenery.
"I feel like my whole body is full of strength now, and the feeling of having a full meal is different."
Bi Fang shoveled a piece of frozen soil out of the pit, his face glowing with a floating green light as he worked noisily.
If the weather is good tomorrow, Bi Fang thinks he can even take a shower.
In the vast snowfield, digging the foundation prompted Bifang's heart to continuously supply blood to the surface of the skin and limbs. It was still freezing cold at minus 30 degrees. As soon as Bifang stopped moving, the blood transfusion process immediately slowed down, and the warmth brought by the food gradually slowed down.
Retreat.
The cold came from all directions, attacking Bifang, a tiny creature in the snowfield.
Blood is alive. When faced with a cold attack, it will fight back. However, if it exceeds the threshold, it will retreat and want to hide away from this terrible cold.
The hole dug for a long time became a barrier, but it did not scare Xue to the point of shrinking. Bi Fang huddled in the hole and took out a few finger-thick branches that were left before. Using the charcoal left last night, he soon started again
A fire was lit, quickly warming the cold cave.
Feeling the comfortable temperature around him, Bi Fang felt sleepy.
He buried the kettle in the snow thirty centimeters below.
"In the polar regions, I recommend using a wide-mouthed container, as narrow-mouthed bottles freeze more easily and melt more slowly."
"The thermal insulation properties of snow are really good. If you place a pot of water under 30 centimeters of snow, even if the temperature drops to minus 40 degrees Celsius, most of the water in the pot will still remain liquid."
Bi Fang carefully sealed the hole with snow to isolate the cold air from the outside, and placed the kettle upside down so that even if a little water froze at the top - the bottom of the kettle - it would not cause the bottle to fail.
Open the lid.
After doing the last thing, Bi Fang turned off the live broadcast.
Tomorrow will be very busy. He needs to harvest more food for the winter and a safe enough shelter to welcome the arrival of the polar night.
The snowstorm that lasted for four days greatly reduced Bi Fang's daytime activities, and what followed was a race against time for survival.
Therefore, Bi Fang set out early the next morning with his hunting knife. Instead of going for winter fishing immediately, fishing in the same cave too frequently would cause even the stupidest fish to react, so Bi Fang planned to stay until the evening.
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Today Bifang will go downstream along the river to see if he can find coniferous forests, collect enough wood, or find larger prey.