Food journey through time: cooking thousands of years of fireworks
Chen Mo, a modern three-Michelin-star Chinese chef, is obsessed with replicating ancient French dishes, and always feels that there is a veil between him and ancient delicacies. One rainy night, he was cooking "Burn Sacrifice of the Zhou Dynasty" using a bronze tripod in the kitchen. Thunder struck, and the electric current caused the tripod's pattern to glow. After being sucked in, he traveled back to the Neolithic Age.
Wearing animal skins, he followed the primitive people and learned to cook wild boar meat in clay pots. Primitive people used stone axes to chop firewood and taught him to use animal bones to eat, making him understand that cooking is a tacit understanding between survival and nature. Later, he was involved in the Shang Dynasty through mysterious cracks and participated in the burnt sacrifice of dolphins. The old man in a black robe taught him to use a bronze knife to bleed and to roast with mulberry wood. He realized that there is awe and order behind cooking.
In the Western Zhou Dynasty, a peasant woman taught him how to make rice soup. From selecting rice, submerging water to stirring slowly, he understood the practicality of farming families and the warmth of neighbors. In the Spring and Autumn Period, he learned to make glutinous rice paste, fermented it for three winters and three summers, and learned about the propriety and inheritance of food etiquette. In the military camp of the Warring States Period, veterans taught him how to make military rations and rice, and he realized the tenacity and unity of the Qin army.
Chen Mo passes through mysterious cracks every time he travels through time. These cracks seem to connect history and guide him to explore the true meaning of food. Where else will he be transported to next? What kind of delicious password will be unlocked in which era?
