The Golden Globes is attempting to become Hollywood’s first sustainable awards show, featuring a reusable red carpet, paper drinking straws and a plant-based menu.

The Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which organizes the event, said it wanted to highlight the climate crisis.

The awards show served a plant-based meal including chilled golden beet soup with locally grown chervil and amaranth, a main course of king oyster mushrooms cooked and presented to resemble scallops, with wild-mushroom risotto, roasted baby purple and green brussels sprouts, carrots and pea tendrils. The vegan dessert “is a take on an opera cake,” according to Matthew Morgan, the executive chef at the Beverly Hilton hotel where the Golden Globes is taking place.

The sustainable selections were a last-minute change from the menu previewed in December that included fish and makes the Golden Globes likely the first major awards show to have an all-vegan menu. Beyond that, the Hollywood Foreign Press Association, which presents the Golden Globes, is planning to reuse the red carpet at other events and will serve Icelandic glacial water in glass bottles.

“The climate crisis is surrounding us and we were thinking about the new year and the new decade. So we started talking between us about what we can do to send a signal,” HFPA president Lorenzo Soria told The Hollywood Reporter. “We don’t think we’ll change the world with one meal, but we decided to take small steps to bring awareness. The food we eat, the way it is processed and grown and disposed of, all of that contributes to the climate crisis.”

Even before sitting down for dinner in the Beverly Hilton ballroom, some guests had weighed in on the vegan cuisine, including acting nominees Leonardo DiCaprio and Joaquin Phoenix, who both praised the selections on social media.

Phoenix, on his sister Rain’s instagram account, said, in part, “By acknowledging animal agriculture’s role in the degradation of our planet and boldly taking measures to do its part to reduce harm, the HFPA has shown great leadership. Thank you, Mr. Soria, the brilliant chefs, and everyone working so hard to confront the environmental perils we face by supporting a plant-based 77th Golden Globes celebration.”

Words to Learn 相关词汇

【参加辩论】cānjiā biànlùn weigh in (informal) to offer an opinion, advice, support, etc., especially in a forceful or authoritative way

【紧急关头的】Jǐnjí guāntóu de last-minute the time just preceding a deadline or when some decisive action must be taken

events in specified populations

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主办方好莱坞外国记者协会表示，希望引发人们对气候危机的关注。

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好莱坞外国记者协会主席洛伦佐·索里亚告诉《好莱坞报道》说：“气候危机来袭，我们正在思考新的一年和新的十年。因此，我们开始讨论能做些什么来引发人们的关注。我们不认为一顿饭就能改变世界，但我们决定采取一些措施来提高人们的环保意识。我们吃的食物，以及它们加工、种植和处理的方式，所有这些都导致了气候危机。”

甚至在金球奖晚宴开始之前，一些嘉宾就开始讨论素食菜单了，包括获得最佳演员提名的莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥和杰昆·菲尼克斯，两人都在社交媒体上称赞了素食菜单。

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(chinadaily.com.cn)