Chapter 401: One of the World's Three Great Treasures, Truffles!

After Delis and Catherine on the side glanced at each other, she hesitated for a moment and said, "Ye Luo, there should be a lot of tourists on the island now, haven't you considered recruiting some shops to stay in?"

"Don't say it, I've really thought about it. ”

Ye Luo nodded and said: "Although it is said that the entry of shops will accelerate the commercial development of the island, however, you also know that my island is not Newfoundland, and the tourists who come to play are all here for vacation and tourism, and people like this who can travel abroad are basically not short of money, but have you ever thought about a problem?"

"What's the problem?" said Delis, frowning slightly.

"If you let those shops come in, and the prices are cheap or the same as the prices in Newfoundland, I'm sure those tourists will be able to accept them, but what if the prices are higher than in Newfoundland?"

Ye Luo didn't have an appetite anymore, and directly picked out and said: "At that time, those tourists will have a feeling of being cheated, and they may choose to buy it for the sake of face or other factors, but what about afterwards? These people will definitely complain to their friends, and the first thing people think of is my problem, not the problem of those stores." ”

Speaking of this, Ye Luo's face showed a serious expression: "At present, the tourism industry on my island has just started, as long as there is a slight problem, then whether it is for me or for Miracle Island, the loss and impact will be unimaginable." ”

Delith stood up and solemnly apologized, "I'm sorry, I thought too one-sidedly. ”

"Oh, don't be so serious. ”

Ye Luo smiled and waved his hand: "Let me tell you the truth, the island will definitely develop into a small town in the future, and it will inevitably have its own business circle at that time, but even if there are shops that want to settle in, they have to pass my review." ”

He still understands the truth of 'a rat poop spoils a pot of porridge', and he can't control other places, and he doesn't care, but on his own territory, then he will definitely not let this kind of thing happen.

The price in the tourist attraction is usually several times more expensive than that of the outside store, like some scenic spots, a bottle of water is only one or two yuan, and people dare to sell it for 10 yuan, do you love to buy it!

In his previous life, when Ye Luo went to travel, he was not less cheated by such things, but later he learned to be smart, and he usually bought a few bottles of water in advance to take with him.

Hearing Ye Luo's words, after sitting down, Dai Lisi said with a meaningful expression: "Then remember to inform us in advance when the time comes." ”

"No, why did you inform you?"

Ye Luoleng paused: "Aren't the two of you doing a good job in Newfoundland?

"Hehe, it's amazing. ”

Catherine smiled and gave Ye Luo a thumbs up: "We haven't said it yet, I didn't expect you to guess it all at once." ”

"Well, you can move here if you want. ”

Ye Luo nodded resignedly, thought about it, and hurriedly added: "But I still want to emphasize, we know each other, but the audit that should be there is still a need, if you can accept it, then I will inform you in advance at that time." ”

"Great!"

Catherine said happily: "Don't worry, no matter what the audit is, we will have no problem." ”

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In order to entertain them well, Ye Luo did not let Li Qingqing cook at noon, but cooked by him himself.

He was told at the beginning that he was going to spend a few days on the island.

Although he did not give money like a tourist, nor did he come empty-handed, he came with four truffles.

Small size is a little smaller, but even if it is small, the price is not expensive.

Truffle (scientific name: Truffle is a general term for a mushroom that is classified as Ascomycetes

Truffle family (scientific name: Tuber.

There are about 10 different varieties, usually annual fungi, mostly grown in the roots of broad-leaved trees, generally under pine, oak and oak trees.

It is scattered at the bottom of the tree in a radius of 120~150 cm, and the block body is hidden in the ground for 3~40 cm.

It is distributed in Italy, France, Spain, China, New Zealand and other countries.

Truffles have a special edible smell and are rich in protein, amino acids and other nutrients.

Truffles are extremely demanding on the growing environment, and cannot be cultivated artificially, and the yield is scarce, resulting in its rarity and high price.

Therefore, Europeans rank truffle as one of the world's three most precious dishes, along with caviar and foie gras.

Among the many species, the black truffle (Tubermelanosporum Vitt. from France) and the white truffle (Tubermagnatum Pico) from Italy are the most highly rated.

White truffles are eaten raw, ground and sprinkled on pasta or omelettes, cut into thin slices and grilled in meat, used to roast foie gras, and even a little truffle added to some cheeses.

The black truffle does not have the same strong flavor as the white truffle, but it can be made with truffle salt or truffle honey.

In the past, truffles had to be peeled, but now they are mostly ground to avoid waste.

Truffle has high medicinal value, and is known as the king of immunity together with Qiongzhen Ganoderma lucidum in the forest, and is the best food to enhance human immunity.

The fruiting body of the truffle is like a lumpy, the small one is like a walnut, and the large one is like a fist. When young, the interior is white and uniform, and when mature, it becomes dark black with a lighter marble-like vein.

Ascomycetes are spherical, oval, brown or brown, some as small as beans and others as large as Fuji apples, with polygonal warts on the surface, reflecting a red luster and a depression at the tip.

Its flesh (spore-producing tissue) is white at first, then brown or gray, and turns black when mature.

The slices are brown and marbled and have a forest-like smell of moisture and aromas of dried fruits, which lure small animals to forage and take the spores to reproduce.

Truffles can be as small as a peanut or as large as a handball.

The truffle growth cycle is only one year.

Its size has nothing to do with its age, it only grows with the seasons, dies and is born.

Black truffles usually ripen between November and March, with the best season between December and March.

The truffle hunters are called 'truffle hunters', and each truffle hunter has a family treasure map that records the where, when, and how big the truffles were found by their fathers.

The process of finding truffles is very interesting, and the methods used by hunters vary from country to country.

However, truffles that are ripe and not picked will rot and disintegrate.

The way of picking varies from place to place.

In France, for example, sows are used to being used as their right-hand man for harvesting black truffles.

The main thing is that the sow has an extremely sensitive sense of smell and is able to smell truffles buried in the ground at a depth of 25 to 30 cm from a distance of 6 meters.

This is because the smell of truffles is similar to androsterenol, which induces sexual drive in sows, causing sows to have a soft spot for them.

But sows have a habit of eating truffles, and if the hunter does not stop them in time, the sow will frantically arch out and eat the truffle when it finds it.

In Italy, it is preferred to use trained female hunting dogs to hunt for white truffles.

Usually, the hound will use its paws to make a mark on where the truffle is located, and wait for the owner to come with a small rake

The child carefully digs up the precious truffles from the soil.

Training a truffle-hunting hound is a complex process that involves training the dog to pick up the balls that have been thrown, then replacing the balls with cheese, then hiding the cheese for the dog to find, and finally replacing the cheese with small truffles for the dog to find and dig out.

Such a trained retriever can fetch 3,000 euros on the market.

Especially on the night before the truffle hunt, hunters usually don't give food to the hounds, so the hounds will try harder to find the truffles in exchange for food as a reward.

Truffles first appeared in New Sumerian inscriptions, which recorded the eating habits of the Amorites, saying that they often ate truffles.

Centuries later, Theophras mentioned truffles in his pennotes.

By 3000 BC, the Babylonians were already looking for truffles on beaches and deserts.

Ancient Greek tales mention Aphrodite (the goddess of love was particularly fond of eating this mushroom (Lefcas of Philogen was the first to talk about truffles as an aphrodisiac.

One legend holds that the truffle was triggered by Zeus' thunder.

In ancient times, there were two kinds of truffles in Italy, Tuber Melanosporum (Winter Black Truffle, Truffle Melanosporum) and Tuber Magnatum Pico (White Truffle, White Truffle.

Despite this, the Romans only consumed Tefiz, a mushroom shaped like a truffle.

Tiefiz is known as the 'desert truffle'.

It is produced on the island of Lesvos, Carthage, and especially Libya. Because in ancient times, the coastal climate in those places was wetter than it is today.

During the Middle Ages, farmers used truffles for flavoring.

The Savoia family in Italy was particularly fond of truffles, and they were often included in the gifts of the princes of Acaga to the Bourbons.

The Pope discovered truffles after moving from Rome to Avignon and fell in love with them, eating them every week.

In 1481, the historian of Pope Batrum-Platina, who wrote about the search for truffles, wrote that there was a type of sow that was particularly good at finding truffles, but that they should be muzzled to prevent them from eating all the truffles!

Before the 17th century, during the Renaissance, truffles were re-popularized in Europe, and they appeared daily in the castle of King Francis I of France.

However, it was in the 17th century that truffles really became popular.

At that time, the Europeans (especially the French) abandoned the heavy flavors of the orient and rediscovered the value of natural food.

In the eighties of the seventeenth century, truffles were very popular in the Parisian market, and the French imported a wide variety of truffles from truffle-producing regions throughout the year.

Briaza Savarin said that truffles were so expensive that they were only found at the tables of the nobility to attract women.

In 1711, the French botanist Etienne FranΓ§ois Jofroy first defined truffles as a type of mushroom.

In 1729, Giovanni Bernardovigo from Florence accurately defined two types of black truffle, Tuber Melanosporum and Tuber Aestivum.

In 1780, Jean-Michel Borch of Poland described the shape and taste of Piedmontese truffles in his family letter about Piedmontese truffles.

In the 20th century, Italy's white truffles became more and more famous around the world.

Especially after the Second World War, people in the regions of Monferrato, Roero, Vallicurone, Gruet and other regions were actively collecting white truffles.

Nowadays, truffles have a very important position in many countries or international fairs.