访谈录 2013-04-11&04-13 探索纽约名小吃“肉馅卷饼”

My grandmother Ulanda Nalida Costantini taught me at a very young age how to cook Argentinian empanadas, …. onion, green olive, hardboiled egg, raisins¹ and sweet paprika. I’ve eaten and cooked these bad boys all my life, I become somewhat of an empanada snob². So today I want to bring you to one of the New York City’s favorite empanada trucks called Nuchas.

This is where miracles are being made on the streets of New York. So this is Will, this is Tom, and this is Nicole. And in the back we have the oven where we can simultaneously³ bake around 30 to 40 empanadas. We then store them here on the hot plates. Our best seller--the argentine.

We think that empanadas are the perfect food for New York City. It’s handheld, it’s easy to eat, it’s easy to do business with while you are eating and you can conduct your business. (OK.) It’s easy to conduct your New York lifestyle on a budge⁴, and with very high-end quality products. We’re trying to mix different cultures together. We’re trying to be New Yorker and

A fusion⁵, some may say.

Exactly. It’s a fusion of different cultures and different foods.

As an empanada kind of … owed it to my country and to my heritage, I knew I had to pry⁶ them for myself. Ok, gracious. Turns out, they were amazing. In India, there are samosas⁷, Jamaica beef patties, China dumplings, Poland pierogis, Italy calzones, England’s pasties and of course in America we have hot pockets. Sure we all come from different lands, but in the end, we all love a good empanada.

1 raisins   

n.葡萄干( raisin的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• These raisins come from Xinjiang,they taste delicious. 这些葡萄干产自新疆，味道很甜。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Mother put some raisins in the cake. 母亲在糕饼中放了一些葡萄干。 来自辞典例句

2 snob   

n.势利小人，自以为高雅、有学问的人

参考例句：

• Going to a private school had made her a snob.上私立学校后，她变得很势利。
• If you think that way, you are a snob already.如果你那样想的话，你已经是势利小人了。

3 simultaneously   

adv.同时发生地，同时进行地

参考例句：

• The radar beam can track a number of targets almost simultaneously.雷达波几乎可以同时追着多个目标。
• The Windows allow a computer user to execute multiple programs simultaneously.Windows允许计算机用户同时运行多个程序。

4 budge   

v.移动一点儿；改变立场

参考例句：

• We tried to lift the rock but it wouldn't budge.我们试图把大石头抬起来，但它连动都没动一下。
• She wouldn't budge on the issue.她在这个问题上不肯让步。

5 fusion   

n.溶化；熔解；熔化状态，熔和；熔接

参考例句：

• Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc. 黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。
• This alloy is formed by the fusion of two types of metal.这种合金是用两种金属熔合而成的。

6 pry   

vi.窥(刺)探，打听；vt.撬动(开，起)

参考例句：

• He's always ready to pry into other people's business.他总爱探听别人的事。
• We use an iron bar to pry open the box.我们用铁棍撬开箱子。

7 samosas   

n.萨莫萨三角饺( samosa的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The food will be samosas, chicken curry and rice, and naan bread. 食品将是五香三角菜饺，咖喱鸡肉饭和印度飞饼。 来自互联网
• A: How about some vegetable samosas to start and today's special chicken curry? 甲：那么先尝一尝蔬菜炸馅角然后再试‘日精选-咖哩鸡’好不好？ 来自互联网