The reason why foie gras can become the top cuisine of the West is because the foie gras produced in the West is not ordinary foie gras, but a very large special foie gras, which can also be understood as fatty foie gras.

Everyone knows that the naturally grown goose, the liver is very small, the taste is relatively general, but the western foie gras is very huge, a complete foie gras weighs about seven or eight hundred grams, that is, about one and a half catties, such a huge foie gras occupies a large part of a goose's body, seriously exceeding the size that the liver should have, and the damage to the goose's body is obvious.

The technique of making this foie gras is also very simple and cruel, that is, when the normal goose grows to 14 weeks, it begins to be compulsively fed, feeding for about three weeks, and about three times a day, and the so-called feeding is to use a tube to extend into the stomach of the goose, and then, a large amount of prepared corn is directly poured into the stomach of the goose, so that a large amount of excess fat accumulates in its liver, and then grows an hypertrophied liver.

The huge liver of the goose body is a kind of fatty liver, even if the goose is not killed, it will not live for too long, and the life span is much less than that of ordinary geese, however, the purpose of breeding this goose is to take foie gras, so that the life of the goose will not be considered, after all, in the eyes of humans, the goose is just a kind of food, there is no big deal, even if the goose eats more bitterness, it should be.

The cost of foie gras is high because the whole goose is just to take a liver, and the rest of the body parts are not worth much, but the proportion of foie gras in the body of the goose is at least much higher than the proportion of the fish brain in the body of the fish, so the cost of foie gras is relatively good, at least much more reliable than eating fish brain tofu.

Westerners are usually reluctant to eat foie gras, entirely because they are not rich enough, or the bottom people in the West are not very rich, and there are more places to spend money, so they are naturally reluctant to eat, and they can save a little if they can save a little.

After all, there are many people in the Tang Empire who raise geese, but the Tang Dynasty does not have the custom of eating foie gras, nor does it have the technology to produce fatty foie gras.

According to the production process of foie gras, it takes at least four months to eat foie gras, but there are many ready-made adult geese, and they can be used directly, so it only takes two or three weeks to make the fatty foie gras.

And the Chinese New Year is about this time, so as long as Ang Lee does it now, then, during the New Year, he will be able to eat delicious foie gras.

Li An's own house can raise geese, however, the area is relatively limited, or let the ordinary people help breed, the effect will be better, as long as the special pipe is handed over to the people, let the people forcibly feed according to the requirements.

This matter can be handed over to the servant, and there is no need for Li An to do it personally, after all, there are many people who breed geese in the capital, just find a few hundred, and then, according to Li An's method to breed, it is very convenient and simple.

There is one last top delicacy in Europe, which is caviar, which is not a big deal just by hearing the name, caviar is available everywhere, and it is not unusual, and caviar does not seem to be a big deal.

But the caviar of Europe is not the caviar of ordinary fish, but the eggs of sturgeon, which is a precious fish, and at the beginning, it was fishermen on the Volga River who made food with the roe of sturgeon, which was loved by the tsar and ordinary old performances, and later spread to France and was regarded as a treasure.

Because only sturgeon over the age of 60 can make top-quality caviar, the production of caviar is very limited, which causes the price of caviar to remain high.

Ang Lee has eaten a lot of caviar, but it is the roe of carp and crucian carp, and the roe of sturgeon, which has never been tasted in previous or present lives, which has to be said to be a great pity.

In fact, there are sturgeon in Datang, which lives in the Yangtze River of Datang, known as the Chinese sturgeon, which is the largest fish in the Yangtze River, with a male fish of 200 catties, and the largest of the words can have 500 catties, which can be seen to be a very large fish.

The sturgeon is a large migratory fish that inhabits the coastal continental shelf stretching from the west coast of North Korea in the north to the southeast coast of China in the south. After living in the ocean for nine to eighteen years, when the gonads are close to maturity, they migrate to the Yangtze River in groups, reaching the upper reaches of the Yangtze River and the lower Jinsha River to reproduce.

Every summer and autumn, they gather at the mouth of the Yangtze River, trace the river up to the upper reaches of the Yangtze River to spawn in the Jinsha River, and the juvenile sturgeon goes down the river to the East China Sea and the Yellow Sea to grow in the deep water.

In spawning populations, males are generally 9 to 20 years old and females are 16 to 29 years old. The spawning capacity of Chinese sturgeon is also very large, a female sturgeon can produce millions of fish roe at a time, but the survival rate is not high, and the final adult fish are still a minority.

After spawning, the female broodstock soon began to descend the river, the eggs produced adhere to the rocks or gravel at the bottom of the river, under the condition of water temperature of 17 or 8 degrees, the fertilized eggs hatched after about five or six days and nights, the larvae just out of the membrane with a huge yolk sac, shaped like tadpoles, drifted down the water, about 13 days later began to feed.

In the spring of the next year, the juvenile sturgeon gradually descends into the river, appears in the Yangtze River estuary from May to August, after September, the juvenile sturgeon with a body length of 30 centimeters has left the shallow tidal flats of the Yangtze River estuary one after another, and enters the sea to cultivate and grow, the life span of the Chinese sturgeon can reach 40 years old, which is a relatively high life expectancy, and it is longer than many animals raised by humans, and this is still wild, if it is artificially raised, the life span of the sturgeon may be able to break through 100 years old.

However, the Chinese sturgeon is a first-class key protected wild animal in China in later generations, known as the giant panda in the water, no one dares to hunt and kill the Chinese sturgeon, otherwise it is a capital crime, so no one knows what the roe of the Chinese sturgeon tastes like, and no one even dares to talk about this issue, so as not to bring trouble to themselves.

However, Li Shizhen has a record in the Compendium of Materia Medica, saying that the liver of the Chinese sturgeon can treat scabies, the fish meat can replenish the deficiency and invigorate the qi, and the food is healthy, and the caviar is as big as a small bean grain, and eating it can kill the small worms in the stomach.

If you want to compare, it is also very simple, catch the Chinese sturgeon, take its caviar to make caviar, and then, go to the Volga River to catch the sturgeon, and also take its caviar to make caviar, and put the two caviar together and compare them a little, you should be able to compare who is more delicious.

The Chinese sturgeon is easy to do, as long as the fishermen are ordered to go to the river to fish, they will always get it, and the sturgeon of the Volga River is not so easy to obtain, after all, the Volga River is still in Europe, and it is too far away from Datang, and now the railway has not passed through, and it may be very difficult to get sturgeon from there.

At least, at present, the people of Datang have not pursued caviar, so even if there are merchants from Datang near the Volga River, they are not willing to travel thousands of miles to transport sturgeon back to Datang, because it is unprofitable, and businessmen are not fools, how can they do things that are not profitable?

Speaking of the three major European cuisines, truffle is just a wild mushroom, foie gras is just a part of the body of ordinary poultry, and caviar is just the roe of sturgeon, which doesn't seem to be special, but it is because of the rarity and the pursuit of the upper class, so that these seemingly unpleasant foods have become top luxury ingredients, which has to make people sigh.

Before the Chinese New Year, if Ang Lee wants to get caviar, he can only go to the Yangtze River to fish, and the truffle can send someone to Lingnan to find it, and get a horse back to Chang'an before the New Year, there should not be much of a problem, as for the fat foie gras, as long as you start feeding as required immediately, it is not a difficult task, before the New Year, at least you can feed about a pound of fatty foie gras, which is three times larger than normal foie gras without pressure.

This time for the Chinese New Year, Li Ang will eat these three top delicacies, and he will let his family taste all these top Western delicacies, so when there is still a period of time before the Chinese New Year, Li Ang has already sent several people to set off, and I believe that these servants will be able to do the errands they have assigned.

And Ang Lee also frequently finds time to hunt, sometimes going alone or with someone, Li Yu often accompanies Ang Lee to hunt.

When Li An goes out hunting alone, the harvest is always very rich, after all, Li An has a secret weapon in his hand, and when he goes out with Li Yu, Li An does not use his secret weapon many times, or can only use it secretly, there will always be restrictions, and the harvest is relatively less.

In order to protect the limited wildlife resources, in many cases, Ang Lee will open up to herds of wild animals, for example, if he can catch a dozen of them, he only kills two or three and then stops, so that the population can reproduce better.

Of course, if it is an animal with strong reproductive ability, Li An is not so soft, such as hares, which have strong reproductive ability, a nest of breeding is a nest, and the number is very large, especially in the rugged mountainous areas, if you want to defeat the hare, it is absolutely impossible, unless you spend effort to destroy the forest, so, it is possible to exterminate the rabbit community, after all, rabbits cannot survive in deserts and cities, only wild environments such as forests are their survival places.

The most likely weather in winter is the snowy weather, and, especially when the climate is extremely cold, the heavy snow on the ground takes many days to melt, and if there is continuous snowfall, it is very likely that the original snowfall has not melted, and the new snowfall is covered again, which brings great trouble to the travel of ordinary people.

After all, if the road is full of snow, the resistance of vehicle traffic is very large, and the sleigh is suitable for traveling on the snow, but in the capital of Datang, most people use vehicles, and there are not many sleds, and even if there is more snow, not every place has snow, and there are many that are artificially damaged, that is to say, the snow is not stable, especially in the interior of the capital, as long as there is snow on the main roads, the imperial court will immediately organize a large number of manpower to clean up the snow, so that the main roads in the capital are free of snowIn this case, there are sleds that are used for hair, and they cannot be used in the city at all.

In addition, on the main roads outside the city, there will also be relevant personnel of the imperial court to carry out snow clearing work, and even the imperial court departments in the capital are equipped with advanced snow clearing vehicles.

There are many ways to clear the snow, such as sprinkling salt on the road surface to facilitate the fusion of ice cubes, using hot water to rinse the snow, and the fused snow water will soon flow into the trenches on both sides without forming ice on the road, and in addition, you can use fire roasting.

Of course, the cheapest and most reliable means, or the use of manpower, the thick snow pile on both sides of the truth, this method is the most economical, but also the most environmentally friendly, the only drawback, is too physically demanding, estimated, after cleaning a road, the person responsible for cleaning can be tired half to death.

However, the capital of the Tang Dynasty is most lacking in manpower, and so many people and military officials can use it to support the immobile number of professionals.

For example, each person must be responsible for cleaning up a section of snow at his own door, and in addition, each household must also assign personnel to clean up the snow on the large and small cross streets, and as for the snow clearing on the main road, someone will organize a special organization to temporarily recruit ordinary people who are idle and give them a certain amount of remuneration to help clear the snow.

As for the snow on the main road outside the city, the army and officials are responsible, and ordinary people who are idle can also be recruited, so that the number of people is strong, and the work can be completed faster and better.

This winter, there have been several snowfalls, however, in the days close to the New Year, a bigger university was held, and the snow was very thick and thick, which made the relevant departments of the imperial court very busy, recruiting ordinary people everywhere to organize more manpower, and strive to clean the road as soon as possible, so that vehicles can pass normally in the city.

In addition, many businessmen also began to donate money and materials, and even directly donated to the hands of ordinary people, so that the people took action to clean up the road as soon as possible, after all, once the road was blocked by snow, the merchant's goods could not circulate smoothly, so that not only could not make money, but even may cause very serious economic losses because of the backlog of goods.