Leah Chase and Pat Mitchell: An interview with the Queen of Creole Cuisine
利亞蔡斯: 與克里奧爾美食女王的訪談
Leah Chase has spent the last seven decades serving her signature gumbo and hospitality to everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to James Baldwin to Barack Obama. Full bioPat Mitchell - Curator, connector, convener and advocate for women's leadership
Pat Mitchell is a lifelong advocate for women and girls, known for her work as a journalist, producer, television executive and curator. Full bio
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like I'm looking at.
because you gave me permission,
你的年齡,因為你說可以,
about to make you a year older.
and parts start wearing out.
有些部份開始失靈。
so I've got my mouth going.
所以我讓我的嘴巴繼續用下去。
the first time we were there,
我們第一次去那裡時,
who work with us at TED,
and you had already cooked lunch
as you do every day,
what you said to those young women.
你當時對那些年輕女子說了什麼。
I talk to young women all the time,
我常和年輕女子說話,
that had to really hustle and work hard,
拼命努力工作的女人,
the education you have today,
with all that education under their belt.
to use those resources.
just look at my mother,
才生出 1 個男生。
we were all still living,
but we're still here.
and blah blah blah blah blah,
that you're in today.
and positions that we have today.
to integrate that Navy.
對黑人平等有多難。
to really be integrated,
Urban League back there,
全國都市同盟的領導人,
as maybe one of his cabinet members.
也許當他的內閣成員之一。
is integrate that Navy."
只有讓海軍對黑人平等。」
into the space program."
up in the sky at 60-something years old.
coming in the kitchen.
to see me, in the kitchen.
I meet all kinds of people.
我見到各式各樣的人。
that really uplifts me,
it is good for me.
flag-waving women.
out there waving.
any of you to do that.
且我不希望你們任何人做。
you have to first look like a girl."
你首先得要看起來像個女孩。」
think like a man.
controlled the behavior of men.
女性控制男性的行為。
and I tell you all the time.
我總是這樣告訴你。
education under his belt as you have,
to live with a mouse.
and do what he has to do.
能成為男人,做他該做的。
a minute to take that in.
speak before I came out --
我聽到這個年輕女子在演說-
we were married 70 years --
just been like her,
all the time, and he said,
you've got to keep moving,
你就該繼續走下去,
in the country, small town,
had to haul the water,
all that kind of stuff.
that we act nice,
我們要有好的行為,
to be any different than you are.
我們不希望你變成其他的樣子。
to have a conversation
to remember, always,
eat together in this city.
白人和黑人不能一同用餐。
Tell me about that.
一起吃。和我談談這件事。
and he would go out --
and all the places,
we are very sophisticated --
to get his clients and all that,
this little sandwich shop,
for a long a time.
from a brewery.
a business today with 600 dollars
what she could do.
a bankrupt sister.
the restaurant open, though,
when people were protesting
人們都在抗議,
that you and your husband made.
所下的那步棋是很爭議的。
know how we did it,
我們如何辦到的,
was a kind, kind person,
我的岳母是個很仁慈的人,
on the police force at that time.
沒有任何非裔美國人。
a little sandwich."
亞伯班史密斯,
right in that restaurant,
the restaurant a safe haven
on civil rights,
you got inside those doors,
all their meetings.
serve them a bowl of gumbo
the course of America
and some fried chicken.
and some fried chicken,
and we'd do what we have to do.
to invite to lunch?
午餐邀請名單給你嗎?
or what you are -- come together.
來聚在一起。
to a good thing and meet.
產生好的結果、達成共識。
in that restaurant.
還能了解那個計畫,
our children to go to jail.
were willing to go to jail
and A.P. Tureaud and all those people
to get in the door, waiting for them.
you're talking about?
But I loved Thurgood.
但我愛瑟古德。
without offending anybody.
Ready or not, we're going to do this."
不論準備好了沒,我們要去做。」
righteous children.
都是正直的孩子。
LC: And they brought the change.
利亞:而他們帶來了改變。
hard things to make changes.
so many of those changes.
between the past and now,
young people today.
你得要告訴年輕人的。
for what your grandfather did.
we don't like that."
我們不喜歡那樣。」
a part of the system.
一部份的時候是什麼情況。
in the African-American community.
莫恩蘭德里厄。
Moon Landrieu.
he took great, great risks
他冒了很大的風險,
for a long time,
was going to help the city.
能夠幫助這個城市。
I tell Moon all the time,
and better than you.
比你更大、更好的事。
P.T. Beauregard come down,
P.T. 博雷加德倒下,
what this was all about.
it was a political move.
那是政治的一步棋。
the next morning,
your pants, and let's go to work,
visibility to the city.
move on it, uplift yourself,
做些相應的行動,鼓舞你自己,
the formula for resilience. Right?
韌性的配方,對吧?
we could find anywhere of resilience,
最好的韌性例子,
and physical strength,
was George Patton.
hanging in my dining room
to reach those goals.
不然就閃邊別擋路。」
I'm going to ride on your coattails,
我就要騎在你的衣後擺上(沾光),
the coattails I've ridden upon.
in this city, in all cities --
在所有城市-
maybe you won't have the pretty hair.
也許你將不會有漂亮的頭髮。
what it's all about.
a good woman to do that.
a good woman to do that.
what you have to do
you do every day in this community.
每天的工作中抽時間出來。
what this does for me.
and come together --
from all over the world.
why he came to this --
我不知道為什麼他來這...
called "Chef's Charity."
所謂的「主廚慈善」。
I was the only woman there,
another woman come up there, too.
另一個女人也上來。
to carry me up there
他們得把我帶上去那裡,
so I could step down.
我就能退下了。
in my kitchen.
to ask you one question."
something about food.
和食物有關的問題。
hang around you?"
都跟你混在一起?」
you may never come to my house.
你永遠不會來我家。
for this special school,
what I see in your dining room."
你的餐廳中所看見的景象。」
to work to better your city,
也能改善你的城市、
and that's what we do in this city.
那就是我們在這個城市中所做的。
ABOUT THE SPEAKERS
Leah Chase - RestaurateurLeah Chase has spent the last seven decades serving her signature gumbo and hospitality to everyone from Martin Luther King Jr. to James Baldwin to Barack Obama.
Why you should listen
Leah Chase, named the "Queen of Creole Cuisine," has been the executive chef at Dooky Chase Restaurant in New Orleans since the 1940's. A longtime advocate for civil rights, her restaurant was a meeting place for the Freedom Riders and prominent civil rights activists, and one of the first places in the segregated south where blacks and whites could dine together. A lifelong resident of Louisiana, she is a patron of local artists, amassing a distinguished collection of African-American art displayed at Dooky Chase. The chef is widely considered to be a pioneer of soul food and an icon of American cooking.
Leah Chase | Speaker | TED.com
Pat Mitchell - Curator, connector, convener and advocate for women's leadership
Pat Mitchell is a lifelong advocate for women and girls, known for her work as a journalist, producer, television executive and curator.
Why you should listen
Pat Mitchell began her media career in print (at LOOK) and transitioned to television as opportunities opened up for women in the early 1970s. She was among the first women to anchor the news (WBZ-TV Boston) and host a morning talk show (Woman 74). She was the first woman to own, produce and host a national talk show, the Emmy-winning Woman to Woman, which also became the first television series to be placed in the archives of the Harvard-Radcliffe Schlesinger Library on the History of Women.
As the head of Ted Turner's documentary division, the programs she commissioned garnered 37 Emmys, five Peabodys and two Academy Award nominations. In 2000, she became the first woman President and CEO of the Public Broadcasting System. She led PBS through the transition to digital broadcasting, sustained government funding and added many new original series to the national schedule. As head of the Paley Center for Media in New York and Los Angeles, she guided an institution that leads discussion about the cultural, creative and social significance of media. Now as an independent consultant and curator, Mitchell advises foundations and corporations on issues of women’s empowerment and leadership development as well as media relations and governance. Mitchell is a trustee of the Skoll Foundation and Participant Media; chair of the Sundance Institute Board and Women's Media Center and a board member of the Acumen Fund.
In 2010, Mitchell launched and co-hosted the first TEDWomen and for the succeeding seven years, in partnership with the TED organization, Mitchell has curated and hosted TEDxWomen and TEDWomen conferences.
Pat Mitchell | Speaker | TED.com