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Dorothy Cann Hamilton, Founder¹ Of French Culinary Institute, Dies At 67

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Now we're going to remember a woman who helped reshape American food. Dorothy Cann Hamilton died on Friday in a car crash in Nova Scotia. She was 67. She founded the International Culinary Center in the mid-1980s, a Manhattan school that trained some of America's most well-known chefs.

Many of the greatest names in food served as teachers there, including our next guest, the chef and restauranteur Jose Andres. Welcome to the program.

JOSE ANDRES: Thank you.

SHAPIRO: How would you describe Dorothy Hamilton's impact on food?

ANDRES: First, I will have to describe who she was. This was a woman that, every time you were next to her - she will be looking at you deep in your eyes. And she will be listening to you and your dreams - what you hope for. And she will always be there for you.

I have a very special relationship with her because I've never really had - I never had a sister. She kind of become this big sister everybody hopes to have. And I had the dream. My dream was I needed to have a culinary program about the Spanish cooking.

She told me, no problem. We'll make it happen. I'm so sad because we were in the process of trying to open a Spanish school in Madrid. Today, America, without a doubt, is eating better because we had an amazing woman in her.

SHAPIRO: The great chefs who have graduated from her school span virtually every genre³, from baking to grilling⁴ to molecular⁵ gastronomy⁶. What was her approach to food and cooking?

ANDRES: I think her approach was always - there is not two types. There is not just the modern cooking and the traditional cooking. There is only the good cooking and the bad cooking.

SHAPIRO: (Laughter).

ANDRES: In a very simple way, she - through her school in the heart of Manhattan - she opened that school to so many people. Everybody that came from anywhere around the world - they had there a place to share their knowledge.

She was a big supporter of traditional French cooking. But she always understood that we all had to work hard to keep moving forward. And we had to push the boundaries of what we know.

SHAPIRO: I was surprised to learn that she opened this school as a part of her father's Apex⁷ Technical School in New York. Did she ever tell you what inspired her to open the institute?

ANDRES: She understood that education was the only way forward. I'm a guy that left school when I was 14, 15. I went to culinary school. But I really never, ever graduated.

But the conversations I would always have with her - it's saying, it's amazing how the right to education can be giving hope to people that - sometimes, they don't come from rich families - that they need to find a place to belong.

And she always saw very clearly that the food industry - that we need to remember, almost over 10 percent of the American workforce⁸ works in food - in restaurants, in farming. It's a very powerful force. So here we had Dorothy - that she very much was like the quarterback of an entire quantity of young people that - they were precisely⁹ looking - whole kind of country went to a better future, a better America.

And there she was, giving this option to thousands of young students - that they dream to be cooks that could be feeding the world.

SHAPIRO: She also hosted a podcast called Chef's Story. And I want to play a clip from that for you.

(SOUNDBITE OF ARCHIVED RECORDING)

DOROTHY CANN HAMILTON: And today, we have the greatest Spanish chef - I would say working in America - but I think the greatest Spanish chef working in the world because he is not only a chef. He's a missionary¹⁰.

ANDRES: Yeah. This is who she - I'm not going to say who she was because I think she's going to be with us forever. It's who she is. She did this amazing show for PBS. I think it was 26-plus episodes. And she invited some - 26 of the best chefs of America.

And it was a talk. And you will spend over an hour talking with her about life, about anything that was important for us.

It's what I was telling you at the beginning - is she always was somebody that listened and always - even only with her eyes. Without telling you anything, she was able to guide you. And there's not a lot of people that have that power.

SHAPIRO: Well, Jose Andres, thank you for remembering your friend Dorothy Hamilton with us.

ANDRES: Thank you. Thank you for remembering her.

SHAPIRO: And on a lighter¹¹ note, before you go, I also want to mention that President Obama is honoring you this week with the National Humanities Medal. And so congratulations on that honor, as well.

ANDRES: Well, thank you. But if somebody really deserves an honor like this, it would be somebody like Dorothy. So this one goes to her.

1 Founder   

n.创始者，缔造者

参考例句：

• He was extolled as the founder of their Florentine school.他被称颂为佛罗伦萨画派的鼻祖。
• According to the old tradition,Romulus was the founder of Rome.按照古老的传说，罗穆卢斯是古罗马的建国者。

2 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

3 genre   

n.(文学、艺术等的)类型，体裁，风格

参考例句：

• My favorite music genre is blues.我最喜欢的音乐种类是布鲁斯音乐。
• Superficially,this Shakespeare's work seems to fit into the same genre.从表面上看， 莎士比亚的这个剧本似乎属于同一类型。

4 grilling   

v.烧烤( grill的现在分词 )；拷问，盘问

参考例句：

• The minister faced a tough grilling at today's press conference. 部长在今天的记者招待会上受到了严厉的盘问。
• He's grilling out there in the midday sun. 他在外面让中午火辣辣的太阳炙烤着。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 molecular   

adj.分子的；克分子的

参考例句：

• The research will provide direct insight into molecular mechanisms.这项研究将使人能够直接地了解分子的机理。
• For the pressure to become zero, molecular bombardment must cease.当压强趋近于零时，分子的碰撞就停止了。

6 gastronomy   

n.美食法；美食学

参考例句：

• He studied gastronomy but cannot make a living as a cook.他学习了烹饪但却无法靠厨艺过活。
• Burgundy has always been considered a major centre of gastronomy.勃艮第大区一向被视为重要的美食中心。

7 apex   

n.顶点，最高点

参考例句：

• He reached the apex of power in the early 1930s.他在三十年代初达到了权力的顶峰。
• His election to the presidency was the apex of his career.当选总统是他一生事业的顶峰。

8 workforce   

n.劳动大军，劳动力

参考例句：

• A large part of the workforce is employed in agriculture.劳动人口中一大部分受雇于农业。
• A quarter of the local workforce is unemployed.本地劳动力中有四分之一失业。

9 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

10 missionary   

adj.教会的，传教(士)的；n.传教士

参考例句：

• She taught in a missionary school for a couple of years.她在一所教会学校教了两年书。
• I hope every member understands the value of missionary work. 我希望教友都了解传教工作的价值。

11 lighter   

n.打火机，点火器；驳船；v.用驳船运送；light的比较级

参考例句：

• The portrait was touched up so as to make it lighter.这张画经过润色，色调明朗了一些。
• The lighter works off the car battery.引燃器利用汽车蓄电池打火。