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What is the food background?

The background of food is the ingredients, cooking methods and special flavor of food. The history behind it, especially some short stories related to this food. The content mainly includes the knowledge of diet theory, diet aesthetics, diet essence, diet custom, diet circulation, cooking history, flavor genre, traditional characteristics, banquet culture, chopsticks culture, tea culture, wine culture and many other aspects.

Gourmet cooking

China's cooking is not only superb, but also has a tradition of paying attention to the aesthetic feeling of dishes and the harmony of color, fragrance, taste, shape and container of food. There are many ways to express the beauty of dishes. No matter carrots or cabbage hearts, they can be carved into various shapes and have a unique style, achieving a harmonious unity of color, fragrance, taste, shape and beauty, giving people a special enjoyment of a high degree of unity of spirit and material.

In a word, China's food culture is a regional culture with a long history, with broad vision, deep levels, many angles and high taste. It is the material wealth and spiritual wealth that Chinese working people have created, accumulated and influenced neighboring countries and the world in the aspects of food source development, tableware development, food conditioning, nutrition and health care, food aesthetics and so on.