What's foie gras?View [3051] Time :2016-05-25

   Goose foie gras is the animal liver, the traditional top dishes of France, the French called Foie Gras". Among them, "Gras" in French means "fat, fat, fat," the meaning, "Gras Foie" literally translated into Chinese is "fat liver" or "with a special way to feed the fat goose or duck liver". The Europeans will foie gras with roe sauce, truffle listed as "the world's three largest food". Its value is equivalent to China's shark's fin, sea cucumber, is also one of the precious ingredients than gold.

About the history of foie gras

Found in Egypt (four thousand or five thousand years ago)

The ancient Egyptians in pushing the rock recreate the world the biggest Tomb of spare time, accidentally discovered migrate in the fall of the wild geese to conserve energy overeating, leading to gather the calories to formation of fatty liver in the liver, and in this period of time to capture the wild geese and their liver flavor is the most delicious. So, people put the goose in captivity, to grow bigger and fat liver.

Extension - Rome (more than two thousand years ago)

At first, the Egyptians with edible fig foie gras, and was dedicated to Caesar. Caesar as food and back to Rome. Then the food, causing the then society by storm, spread to Alsace and southwest France village, gradually began to someone with foie gras produced aspic and pate, and a mix of French bread to eat, simple and convenient.

It is popular in France

The only thing that really carried this delicious food was the only emperor Louis, who was executed in the history of France, sixteen. In 1762 when the governor of Alsace Province, the palace de Todd, on their own chef invented foie gras pies particularly proud. He specifically invited celebrities to their home early adopters, guests praise for delicious foie gras pie. So governor adults made a highest level of foie gras pie, presented to Louis XVI King pleasantly surprised to think foie gras pie is delicious foods from all over the world. It began to rage foie gras. Now, has become a valuable French foie gras "cultural heritage".