Riding the wind of rebirth

The taste of black truffle is actually a bit like the smell of gasoline mixed with some garlic and rotten eggs. Zhouzhi is actually not unfamiliar with this smell. The roots of some varieties of wild porcini in Daliangshan actually have a similar smell, but the taste of black truffle is stronger.

In addition, black truffles also contain the scent of rotten wood from piled up fallen leaves and fermentation, and you can even smell the sweetness of honey.

In fact, honey itself is also a fermented product. Fresh pollen and nectar must be sealed by bees with beeswax in the hive for fermentation. If it is taken out too early, the honey can only be called nectar or sugar water. Only honey that has been processed by bees and fermented for several months can be called honey.

So black truffles still have some of this kind of flavor. To put it simply, it is the complex aroma of fragrant amino acids after protein degradation.

After mixing with salty substances, Zhou Zhi even thinks it has a "soy sauce" taste. Yes, the aroma of soy sauce actually comes from the degradation of soybean protein into amino acids, and then compounding into aromatic phenols and large molecular clusters with more complex smells.

Combined with various aromatic substances and aromatic green oil, the taste becomes very complex and the layers are very rich, which makes Zhou Zhi feel that the popularity of a certain ingredient is not without reason.

However, Zhang Silu was not very interested in black truffles. He only tasted a small corner tentatively, then gave it to Zhou Zhi and Ikeda Qiu, and ate the rest.

However, in the end, the main dish, large ravioli, which was made with coffee beans and flour for the dough and black truffle powder, lamb, onions and other fillings, received unanimous praise from the three people.

The preparation of this dish is somewhat similar to the baked buns that Zhou Zhi ate in northern Xinjiang. The authentic northern Xinjiang baked buns are actually made in the shape of dumplings and baked. They look similar to this dish in appearance, but the taste is completely different.

Everyone liked this dish very much, and unlike the other three dishes which were smaller in size, this big dumpling was enough to fill everyone up. Zhou Zhi even asked for another portion to take back for Mai Xiaomiao, since they lived in a one-bedroom, two-living-room apartment with an open kitchen and an oven.

Spencer was also kind enough to tell him that to reheat the dish, he only needed to bake it in the oven at 180 degrees for five minutes, and that it would taste even better than when it was first baked.

After this meal, Zhou Zhi's impression of Western food has completely changed. Compared with ordinary hamburgers, steaks, and sandwiches, the "fine bran" in Western food is still quite satisfying.

Then Zhou Zhi remembered what Fu Xia said, that her earliest impression of Chinese food was the fried rice in Chinatown. It was only after she arrived in China that she realized that fried rice was the most basic item in Chinese food.

Not only did the food make people happy, but the further progress of the collegial panel in the afternoon also made people happy. Lewis seemed to have become a different person. After standing on the side of the association in the morning and believing that the alliance should assume the obligations of practitioners, he rejected several complaints filed by Malmut, or postponed the resolution, saying that a conclusion could only be made after more evidence was provided.

First, Malmut's questioning of the Alliance Forum's profit-making method and his suggestion on whether the Alliance Forum should be listed as a non-profit organization, thereby depriving it of its profit-making ability, were refuted by Tony Huang who produced several documents.

The Alliance Forum has passed the business registration for its business behavior and profit model very early, and has begun to enjoy the state government's subsidies and tax exemption policies, which is exactly the same as all information technology companies. In other words, the New York State government and the industrial and commercial, tax and other administrative departments have confirmed its nature as a limited company. Secondly, there are already many pioneering companies trying similar precedents, the most famous of which is Amazon.

Two years ago, Bezos founded Amazon. Last year, Bezos moved from New York to Seattle. With $30 in start-up capital, he created the first online retail company in the United States in a garage rented in the suburbs of Seattle. In July, the Amazon website was officially launched, mainly engaged in online book sales.

Last year, Bezos changed Amazon's registration to Delaware. After several failed financing attempts, it finally got a mysterious venture capital from the East. Since then, it has begun to adopt a large-scale expansion strategy, exchanging huge losses for business scale, and started to compete with offline book giants Barnes & Noble and Borders.

Today, Bezos has the ambition to position Amazon as "the largest bookstore on earth."

Now the Alliance Music Forum is actually doing the same thing, but has changed the website model from Amazon's B2P to P2P, which means that anyone can upload their own works, and anyone can choose other people's works to purchase and download.

After reading the information submitted by Tony Huang, Lewis thought that this statement was completely correct and had been recognized by the government, tax authorities, as well as a large number of record companies, freelance creators and music fans. If Amazon is called an "online bookstore", the Alliance Forum can actually be called an "online music supermarket", but it is more like a flea market.

Next is the issue of privacy protection for registered users, which is a more troublesome issue. Although registered users are anonymous, when uploading music, they are required to provide the name of the record company, tax registration certificate number and company bank account number. If they are freelance creators, they are also required to provide the creator's identity and card number.

These data are stored in the system background, which means that the alliance forum can actually grasp this part of the data.

This will inevitably infringe upon some of the privacy of registered users.

However, this problem was also resolved by Tony Huang.

The reason is simple. After the previous dispute, the identity of the Alliance Music Forum as a commercial entity has been determined. Any retail service company cannot be without customer data, at least the data of customers who have done transactions.

Such precedents exist both in the traditional offline sales industry and on pioneering online retail websites. Take Amazon as an example. It retains a large amount of customer information data, but no organization or individual believes that there is a problem.

Regarding this point, Tony Huang also gave an example. In order to impose a more perfect transaction protection mechanism on customers, transactions within the alliance forum are actually conducted in a method called "Alliance Digital Currency".

The user first uses the bank settlement system to make online electronic payments, and then the Digital Alliance will recharge the corresponding face value of "Alliance Digital Currency" to the user's name. The user uses this virtual currency to complete functions such as music download payment online, which greatly reduces the possibility of the user's core confidential information being exposed. (End of this chapter)