饞嘴教授喜歡中國(guó)菜

Steven: I’ve listened to your speech. And this is your first time to come to China. So what’s your impression on China? This is a very big question.

Dr. Seymour Papert: This is a very big question. (laughing). What is my impression on China? Of course, it maybe the first time I’ve been to China. Of course, China is a part of all our lives. I’ve been very interested in all sorts of Chinese things. I study Chinese food and cooking.

Steven: Not Chinese language?

Dr. Seymour Papert: We know, doing a lot of Chinese cooking, I learned enough characters. So I could go in the grocery stores in China town in Boston, and buy the things.

Steven: Can you say some Chinese language?

Dr. Seymour Papert: No, I didn’t speak at all.

Steven: But you can recognize some Chinese characters. Do you love Chinese food?

Dr. Seymour Papert: I do very much like Chinese food. In fact, I’ve been very much involved with...To begin with, it’s interposed the way I see food in general that there’re only two developed cuisines in the world.

Steven: Let me guess. Chinese food and French food?

Dr. Seymour Papert: Yes, Chinese food and French food. The others are just sort of regional. Italian food can be quite good, but it’s just few things…. But French is a whole philosophy of food and Chinese is a whole philosophy of food. And it’s different.

Steven: You know, some people complain that the Chinese people spend too much time on eating. What do you say to that?

Dr. Seymour Papert: Some people eat to live and some people live to eat

Steven: So before coming to China, how did you get to know about China?

Dr. Seymour Papert: Movies. It doesn’t tell me a picture of China. No, no. It does tell me something about Chinese, maybe Chinese thinking, and of course Chinese movies’ directors. Of course, I read books. Of course, eat the food. I have had many Chinese students. In fact that’s how I first really learned to do Chinese cooking, cause we had Chinese graduate students. Once a month, we would all make a big banquet.

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