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[閒聊] 曾為MJ服務過的廚師(Remi)採訪

看板KingofPop (麥可傑克森 - Michael Jackson)作者dormice (MJ KING OF POP )時間16年前 (2009/12/29 23:39)推噓3(3推 0噓 0→)

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在網路上搜尋calendar看到的 http://www.carnaval.org/ball/index.php?module=pagemaster&PAGE_user_op=view_page &PAGE_id=18&MMN_position=20:20 http://0rz.tw/COzVC 把一些有出現Michael 的片段貼過來 This is an article David de Hilster wrote about Remi back in 2002 when SambaLa honored Remi during their 2002 Brazilian Street Carnaval. Remi: The Queen of Brazilian Tastes She has charmed the President of Brazil and Michael Jackson with her cooking. Hollywood and Brazilian Royalty has savored her cuisine. Now it is the charmer that is being celebrated this year in song, parade, costume and dance to honor what she rightly has become: a Brazilian National Treasure. DAVID DE HILSTER (2002, Brazzil Magazine) While living in Brazil, one of my friends told me "Michael Jackson loves Brazilian food. He eats black beans, rice, and collard greens!" I chalked it up to another one of those Brazilian tall tales and I left it at that. Many years later, that statement would come back to haunt me when I moved from Rio to Los Angeles and saw an article in a Brazilian newspaper talking about "Remi: Brazilian Cook to Michael Jackson and other Hollywood royalty". Instead of pulling my foot out of my mouth, I decided to put some of her food in it instead. My wife and I headed for the "Copacabana Restaurant" (no longer in business today) very near Hollywood and we tasted her food. And like the magic she has spun with the greats of Brazil and Hollywood, she captured our taste buds as well as our hearts. 作者說到當朋友告訴他MJ愛吃黑豆米羽衣甘藍，他只覺得是一個荒謬的消息直到他看到一則新聞寫到Remi 當過MJ的廚師，他決定要吃看看REMI煮的菜 Brazzil Magazine: You and Quincy Jones have a special relationship. How did he become such a big fan our yours? Remi: Eventually, I cooked for almost every movie star and musician in Hollywood. I met Quincy once at a dinner I cooked for some other musician. He loved my food and asked me if he could come and do something very important. He told me that he wanted to be Michael Jackson's producer but every time he invited Michael to his house, Michael would never eat. He asked me if he could get Michael to eat some of my food. He said that Michael was a vegetarian and very picky about what he ate. I said I would try. 講到昆西當MJ製作人時，邀請MJ來家裡他都不吃東西，昆西說MJ是素食者( 可是之前看到有人講老大也不是全然素食) 而且很在意他所吃的東西，Remi說她會試看看 I went to Quincy's house and there I met Michael for the first time. I took him aside and told him, "let me make you something very special. I know how to cook very healthy food from Brazil. All natural, all vegetarian. You will like it." He agreed. I made him some black beans, collard greens, farofa and some other things and he ate four plates full! Remi告訴MJ，她會為他烹煮來自巴西的一些健康天然食物，他會喜歡的結果MJ吃了四大盤 o_0 farofa（用樹薯粉以及些許調味的豬肉、洋蔥、白煮蛋或各類蔬菜做成的菜） Quincy was kissing me all night long and from that time, he has called me many times to cook for him. 昆西很感謝她，接著也一直叫她再去 Brazzil Magazine: Your trip on the Michael Jackson "Thriller" tour. Tell me about how that came about. Remi: That is another very amazing story. I was living in West Los Angeles in a small apartment when I got a phone call. The person on the phone asked me to look outside. He said: "See the limousine? Get in it, now!" I told him I could not because I was taking care of a person off the street and could not leave him. They said that they would send someone to look after the person right away and for me to get into the car. I told them I had to change my clothes because I all dirty from cleaning. They didn't care. Finally I agreed when the man arrived to take care of my guest and I was taken to a big building in Beverly Hills and up to the very top penthouse. It was very luxurious. 詢問她是如何參與MJ的Thriller tour Remi受到黑衣人的叫喚，隨他們到了比佛利山莊的豪宅 (這一段描述的好像偵探片...Remi也太大膽就這樣跟人走o_0 ) The man on the other side of the desk handed me a ticket and said "you are going to the airport right now. Here is your ticket." I asked him why. He explained to me that Michael Jackson was having stomach aches and specifically requested me to be his "nutritionist" on the "Thriller" tour. He was feeling sick to his stomach and refused to go on stage until they sent me to be his private cook. They were all very nervous. They said they were losing millions of dollars in canceled shows and I had to go right then. 黑衣人請Remi馬上上飛機趕到MJ身邊，因為他胃痛到無法上台黑衣人擔心他們要損失好幾百萬如果無法順利演出的話 I told them I could not and could only go in the morning. After a lot of arguing, the agreed to let me go home and they picked me up early in the morning and I was off to Birmingham Alabama. Remi討價還價了半天，黑衣人終於答應清晨再去接她而不是馬上出發 I spent 8 weeks with Michael and his family on the road during the tour. It was an incredible trip I will never forget. 她跟著巡迴演出八個禮拜，這是終生難忘的回憶..... Brazzil Magazine: Did you become friends with him? 你跟MJ後來有變成朋友嗎? Remi: We became friends and I saw him numbers of times after that. I visited him in the hospital when his hair caught on fire and I saw him once in a while at an award's show or party. 我們成為朋友，在MJ因火燒傷頭時還有去醫院看他 Brazzil Magazine: They didn't call you Michael Jackson's chef. They called you his nutritionist didn't they? 他們不叫你MJ的廚師，而是稱你為他的營養師對嗎? Remi: Yes. When first I came to the United States, I started learning from other chefs about what is healthy and not healthy. In Brazil, we didn't worry about what ingredients we used or what happened to someone if they ate something that made them sick. That was just part of regular life there. But in the United States, people cared about what they put into their bodies and I had to learn a lot of things quickly. I am an artist in some way and being a cook, I learned to have a "love for people". I cared about whether they got a belly-ache from eating my food not only because it needs to be prepared fresh - I always did that - but because of the ingredients themselves. I started substituting different meats in the traditional Brazilian feijoada (see recipe box) and cooking lots of things vegetarian. It was fun for me to cook this new way because in the end, I care about the taste of the food and food cook not only be a wonderful experience, but could also be nutritious and healthy. I know I must have succeeded because Michael Jackson ate my food and he is very very particular about what he puts into his body. But because Michael is so big, I got a lot of attention around the world during the Thriller tour because they called me his nutritionist. I did after all make him stop having tummy-aches during his tour and he did not have any problem with food while I cooked for him. 我知道我成功了，因為MJ吃了我為他準備的食物，他很在意他吃下的是什麼，在顫慄巡迴期間也因為MJ是個大人物，所以我受到很多注目，他們稱我為他的營養師，MJ在這段期間沒有肚子痛過也沒有因為我準備的食物發生過什麼問題。 O Globo Television in Brazil did a report on me on the show "Fantastico" talking about me as Michael Jackson's nutritionist. A Japanese magazine also did a story on Michael Jackson's nutritionist. Then I guess I was not a cook or chef to them. I was a "nutritionist". But today, I feel that part of being a chef IS being a nutritionist. Brazzil Magazine: There's a story about you, your salsa, and Quincy Jones in Madison Square Garden during the Michael Jackson "Thriller" tour. Tell me about that. Remi: Yes, Quincy Jones loves my salsa. Quincy first tasted my salsa and became addicted to it at Sidney's (Poitier) 一個好萊塢黑人明星演員house. Once in Madison Square Garden, I just got done preparing the special tea I made for Michael Jackson and placed them all around the backstage area for him to drink during the show. When I was done, I then went back in the back of the auditorium and waited for the show. 昆西愛死我做的莎莎醬，有次在紐約的Madison Square我在後台準備好MJ的茶，回到觀眾席準備欣賞演出 All of a sudden, there was a pounding at the microphone and the crowd went wild. They yelled "Michael, Michael", screaming and yelling. Then all of a sudden I hear my name. "Remi, Remi!" over the sound system. I didn't believe it at first but it was Quincy. "Remi, return to Los Angeles, there is no more salsa!" Quincy had run out of salsa before the show and wanted more. He was always playing jokes. That was very funny. I will never forget that. 然後麥克風有了一點聲音，觀眾就跟瘋了一樣開始呼喊"Michael"。接著Remi不敢相信但她的確聽到有人在叫她，是昆西，他叫她回去，莎莎醬已經用光了XDDDD Brazzil Magazine: Tell me some of the people you have cooked for in Hollywood. 你曾經為哪些好萊塢名人服務過 Remi: I have cooked for so so many people. I once cooked for Michael Jackson and Elizabeth Taylor alone in Michael's house. That was very special. I have cooked for Oprah Winery, Paul McCartney, Eddie Murphy, Dick Van Dyke, Sugar Ray Lenoard, Magic Johnson, Bill Cosby, Willey Nelson, Herb Albert. So so many. I just can't remember them all. I used to see Gregory Peck and James Stewart walking their dogs in the neighborhood and I would talk with them and got to know them. They were very wonderful men. Brazzil Magazine: This year you are being honored at the Brazilian Street Carnaval in Long Beach. How do you feel? Remi: It is so so nice. Brazilian television has done stories on me. You know Fantastico? They did a story on me when I toured with Michael Jackson. A Japanese magazine also did a story on me at the same time. But it was more because of Michael Jackson then about my cooking. Remi說有很多關於她的採訪，但通常都是先講Michael再說她的廚藝 It is nice to be recognized by your own community. Your own people. Many times your own culture doesn't always appreciate you for what you have done. I know that the Americans and Brazilians in the Los Angeles community are honoring me and that is very special. But I am also happy for Brazil. We are known for futebol and samba. Not many people know about our food. And if I have helped people appreciate my country's rich culinary heritage, then I am very happy for the life I have had. 這已經是2002年的新聞了 a long time ago.... 覺得蠻有趣的，跟大家分享一下 -- Michael Jackson was someone who understood. If he was burned, he built a burn unit. If a hospital need beds, he built those beds. If they needed money for developing countries, Michael gave. If he was in Namibia, he went to orphanages. He never stopped giving. Because he cares about us, he cares about the world. -- ※ 發信站: 批踢踢實業坊(ptt.cc) ◆ From: 59.115.102.47