Because our oil recovery technology has not been transmitted from abroad. In the Han Dynasty, Zhang Qian finally brought flax back from the Western Regions, and we began to use sesame oil. Only lighting.
When it comes to fried food, you can't help mentioning edible oil. Because of the lack of food or backward technology, we can't see traces of edible oil in some ancient civilizations.
Our ancestors never used a rotary oil press, nor did they eat peanuts or other food crops that could be used to extract oil. It was not until the first century A.D. that meat fried food appeared along the Mediterranean coast. At the same time, the cooking method of frying food with incense appeared in the Three Kingdoms period in China.
In Arabia from the eighth century to the fifteenth century, animal and vegetable oils and fried foods played an important role in food culture. During the same period, olive oil produced in Lebanon, West Asia, Maghreb and Syria became famous, and the olive oil produced in these countries was even exported to Iraq and Egypt.
However, the North American continent, which introduced fried food to the world, originally had no fried food. Many European scholars, when studying American food culture, were surprised to find that there was no edible oil in the life of native Indians, let alone fried food.
It was not until17th century that North America began to be colonized by Britain that fried cooking methods spread from Europe to America and Africa.
British colonists in America are crazy about frying anything: fried ham, fried eggs, fried pork liver, fried steak, fried fish, fried potato chips, fried oysters and fried chopped food.
People eat these fried foods together with doughnuts, pancakes and oil cakes as three meals a day and every month, which is probably the year when they eat the most fried foods in American history.
At that time, some fried foods were very popular and regarded as the benchmark of local culture, which continues to this day. French fries in the United States and fried bean balls (chickpeas or broad beans) in the central and eastern regions are examples of this.
The native name of the southwestern United States is famous for its fried bread. Corn hot dogs are the pride of people in Coney Island, new york.
With the spread of American fast food culture, some fried foods that Americans like, such as fried chicken pieces and chips, have also become popular foods in many countries. For example, in China, potato chips are very popular in supermarkets.
But native Americans don't like the cooking oil brought by Europeans, and this is still the case in modern Latin America. Except for some roadside stalls where you can see tortillas or fried fish, frying is basically not the main cooking method in Latin America.