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"So," Tina Scamander said, carefully choosing her words, "from what you're saying, before entering Hogwarts, the environment you lived in occasionally took these things into consideration..."
"A Muggle orphanage by the shore of Loch Lomond in the Scottish Highlands," Elena said calmly.
"A Muggle orphanage? I'm sorry, dear, I didn't know..."
Mrs. Scamander didn't detect any embarrassment in Elena's voice.
However, the girl's answer still surprised her. She had originally thought that even if the girl wasn't from an old wizarding family, she would at least be from a well-off non-magical family—Tina rarely met such an elegant and well-mannered little girl.
"That's right," Elena said, calmly looking at the Scamanders' surprised faces, "a private orphanage run by a foolish priest, but there's nothing to apologize for. I actually think I'm very lucky."
"Hmm? But you even had difficulty eating meat, right?" Newt frowned in confusion.
"If we're talking about 'meat' as you define it, then yes, that's true."
Elena smiled slightly, and without caring whether Newt understood some of the terms, she quickly continued.
"But strictly speaking, I think anything rich in protein can be considered meat, such as pork kidney, pork brain, pork large intestine, pork heart... In a sense, cholesterol-rich offal can completely be used as a substitute for eggs—which is actually a good choice for everyone in the orphanage."
As she spoke, the girl gently tapped the stir-fried pork kidney in front of her with her chopsticks.
"Indeed, it would be a difficult thing to accept at first," Elena shrugged, a rare hint of gentleness flashing in her eyes, "but perhaps precisely because there was no choice, everyone gradually fell in love with this cheap and unique ingredient, which I didn't expect, even... even more than they liked normal pork."
Elena was actually a little troubled about this matter.
Due to the harsh conditions, Elena had almost single-handedly managed the orphanage's three meals a day before the Hogwarts kitchen took over the catering supply, which inevitably made the children's tastes a little strange.
Whether it was flying in the sky, running on the ground, growing on the surface, or buried underground, not to mention pork offal, pig's head, and pig's tail, which looked relatively normal, even some strange insects such as silkworm pupae and termites were all within the scope of the orphanage children's edible recipes.
"In short, this is not a sad thing."
Elena turned her head to look at Newt Scamander, and said quite seriously.
"Just like your interest in exploring the unknown field of magical creatures, I am just building on your work by utilizing the remaining value that has not yet been developed—edible, medicinal, commercial... These normal social behaviors of human beings inevitably cause the death of animal and plant life, which is part of the natural cycle, but waste is undoubtedly the worst."
"On the other hand, in places you can't see, hunger still threatens the lives of many people."
Elena pointed to the pork kidney in front of her and said in a solemn tone.
"It's just that some people are not as lucky as I am to be able to accurately find the food that can sustain life in the vast nature. As for cooking them deliciously on this basis, that's even more of an unrealistic luxury."
A large part of the reason why Chinese cuisine seems so inclusive is due to the continuous experimentation of generations of predecessors, including cultural changes, the suffering of wars, and even diseases and natural disasters...
In order to continue to survive, those predecessors of the Zhong Hua family paved a path for future generations with their lives.
Compared to this, this is also the biggest difference between Europe and China—the foundation of food culture.
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