Why You Should Share a Recipe with a Stranger | Anuj Gupta | TED · TED
通过分享食谱和晚餐，促进陌生人之间的交流，增强社会凝聚力。适合练习社交对话和文化理解。
Can we eat our way to a stronger democracy?
我们能否通过改善饮食来促进民主制度的健康发展（即让民主制度变得更加强大/更加稳固）？
Normally, when we talk about strengthening democracy, we talk voting, town halls, civic engagement.
通常情况下，当我们谈论加强民主时，我们会提到投票、市民大会以及公民的积极参与。
All of that matters.
所有这些都很重要。
But I'd like to suggest something unexpected.
不过，我想提出一个有些出乎意料的建议。
Food.
食物。
Food may be as essential to a strong democracy if we accept two simple ideas.
如果我们接受以下两个简单的观点，那么食物对于一个强大的民主制度来说同样至关重要。
First, democracy relies upon us knowing each other.
首先，民主制度要求我们彼此了解、相互信任。
Being able to talk to one another.
能够彼此交流、互相交谈。
Understanding that disagreement does not make someone an enemy.
要明白：意见不合并不意味着对方就是敌人。
And second, food is one of our last common denominators.
其次，食物是我们为数不多的共同点之一。
No matter your race, income or religion, we all have a cuisine.
无论你的种族、收入或宗教信仰如何，我们每个人都有自己的传统美食文化。
And those cuisines are more than just their ingredients.
这些菜肴的意义远不止于它们所使用的食材本身。
They're collections of stories, histories, values, memories.
它们是一系列故事、历史、价值观以及记忆的集合体。
When we start to learn something about one another's cuisine, we often discover something deeper.
当我们开始了解彼此的烹饪文化时，往往会发现一些更深层次的东西。
We are not as different from each other as we think.
我们彼此之间的差异其实并没有我们想象中那么大。
That’s the bet we made in 2016 with Breaking Bread, Breaking Barriers.
这就是我们在 2016 年通过“Breaking Bread, Breaking Barriers”项目所做出的承诺（或：这就是我们当时所设定的目标）。
Twelve immigrant and native-born communities came together in partnership with the Reading Terminal Market, the city and local organizations.
十二个由移民和本地居民组成的社区，在“雷丁终端市场”（Reading Terminal Market）、市政府以及当地组织的支持下共同开展了这项活动。
We cooked together, ate together, talked through facilitated dialogue, almost entirely about food, over dinner with strangers we may otherwise never meet.
我们一起做饭、一起吃饭，通过引导式的对话进行交流；几乎所有的谈话内容都与食物有关。这些对话发生在与陌生人共进的晚餐时光里，而平时我们可能永远都不会有机会遇见这些人。
Folks sharing recipes on how chicken is fried in their respective cultures.
大家正在分享各自文化中炸鸡的食谱。
Trading stories about Sunday night dinner traditions with extended family.
与远亲朋友们分享关于周日晚餐传统的故事。
Talking about those food-centered holidays we all celebrate.
说到那些以食物为主题的节日，我们大家都会庆祝它们。
Over the years, nearly 400 Philadelphians took part in four different versions, and this year, for our 250th anniversary,
多年来，已有近400名费城居民参与了这项活动的四个不同版本。今年，为了庆祝我们的250周年纪念日，
over 700, across seven Philly neighborhoods, are taking part in a version that has catalyzed a city-wide conversation on citizenship,
来自费城七个社区的700多名居民参与了这项活动。这项活动引发了全市范围内关于公民身份的广泛讨论。
at a time when that word divides more often than it unites.
在一个这个词语往往引发分歧而非促进团结的时代……
What I've witnessed over the years has been profound.
这些年来我所目睹的一切都令人深感震撼（或：意义深远）。
War-weary Syrian refugees being welcomed over dinner by their new neighbors in Northeast Philly as if they'd known each other for decades.
那些饱受战争摧残的叙利亚难民，在费城东北部的新邻居们的热情款待下共进晚餐；他们的邻居们对待他们，就像认识他们几十年一样亲切。
A single mother, isolated during the pandemic,
一位单亲母亲，在疫情期间陷入了孤立无援的境地。
sharing through a virtual dinner with strangers
通过与陌生人共进“虚拟晚餐”来增进彼此的了解与交流
that this was the first human interaction she'd had in nearly a year since the pandemic began beyond her immediate family.
这是自疫情爆发以来，她近一年来第一次与除直系亲属之外的人进行互动。
And a 12-year-old boy, standing unsolicited in a room full of adults to simply state: if more people took the time to learn about each other,
还有一个12岁的男孩，他主动走进一个满是成年人的房间，只是想说：“如果更多的人能花时间去了解彼此的话……
the world would be a richer place.
这个世界将会变得更加丰富多彩。
The idea is simple but replicable.
这个想法很简单，而且可以很容易地被复制（即其他人也可以采用同样的方法）。
Where we differ, lean in.
在我们意见不同的地方，应该更加深入地探讨、交流。
Share a recipe with a neighbor.
与邻居分享一道菜的食谱吧。
Tell them what it means to you, who passed it down and what memories it evokes.
告诉他们，这个传统对你来说意味着什么；是谁将这个传统传承下来的；以及它唤起了你哪些回忆。
Chances are they'll start telling you a surprisingly similar story.
很有可能他们会开始向你讲述一个出奇相似的故事。
And from there, you've just created the possibility that democracy relies upon most: a connection with those we perceive as different.
从这一点来看，你刚刚为民主制度创造了一个至关重要的基础：那就是与我们那些被视为“不同”的人建立联系。民主制度正是建立在这样的联系之上的。
Now let's get some lunch and build democracy for the next 250 years.
现在，让我们吃点午饭，为接下来的 250 年奠定民主的基础吧。
Thank you.
谢谢。
(Cheers and applause)
（掌声）