Light Your Fire! | Carolina “China” Bazán | TEDxFrutillar

Chilean chef Carolina "China" Bazán gives a talk structured as a menu of starter, main course and dessert. It traces humanity's first fires and argues that hospitality was born around them. The talk invites listeners to forge their own path without asking permission and to light and tend their own fire. It was given at a TEDx event independently organized by a local community.

• Humanity's first fires and the origins of hospitality
• A talk framed as a three-course menu
• An invitation to forge your own path

A talk served as a menu of starter, main course and dessert that travels back to humanity's first fires to show that hospitality was born around them. An invitation to forge your own path without asking permission, light your own fire and tend it. Carolina “China” Bazán is a Chilean chef and the founder of Ambrosía and Ambrosía Bistró in Santiago. In 2019 she was named Latin America’s Best Female Chef by Latin America’s 50 Best Restaurants. Her cooking is built on local producers, seasonal ingredients and menus that change daily. Through it, she has made food a statement about creativity, territory and the freedom to forge one’s own path. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx