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Holiday table, the hanukkah table, whatever. does food really bring people together even with the ideological polarization? >> food totally brings people together. what we're looking at right now is a crescendo in terms of political and sexual, so what food does, it allows us to sit down, have conversations, builds bonds and trusts. >> yeah, and you mentioned sexual. the restaurant industry has not been immune from the me too movement. we've heard about hollywood, the news business, it's just going sort of rocketing around the world of men, it's not unknown in this industry either. recently ha...

And so accepted that i think it's going to take a lot to dig us out of that hole now. >> welcome back, everybody. i promised you i would not stop reporting on sexual harassment and the harvey weinstein scandal, and now it's gone way beyond harvey weinstein. this week, congresswoman jackie speier launched a campaign to illustrate what she says is a hostile culture of sexual harassment on capitol hill. nbc news political analyst mark halperin, off the air now after cnn and the "washington post" reported allegations of sexual harassment when he was at abc news a decade ago. halperin posting an ap...

Harassment. backers pulled the plug on the former literary editor of the near republic's new magazine after he admitted to misdeeds with female colleagues. new orleans celebrity chef, john besh stepped down amid multiple harassment allegations. the icon of the art world has resigned as the publisher of art forum magazine after being accused of sexual harassment. and of course, former fox news host bill o'reilly was dropped after a $32 million personal settlement for sexual harassment. and then the 38 women who have come forward who accused james toback of sexual harassment. it feels like the f...

There, a young african-american guy with the logo on and the foundation, and i said, this is what john besh is about, and why new orleans has recover and why did you feel it was necessary to not just hire people as busboys and wait staff which is a phenomenal job, but you want more, but it is not accessible. >> one thing that has irk ed me over to the years is that i would look through my brigades of the kitchen staff and all of the people that i employ, and think why don't we have a proper proportion of, you know of african-american chefs as we do the white ones that are highly educated and c...

Done. the city is booming, and the real estate, and try to get down there to get a reservation at some of the restaurants down there, and one of the chefs driving this boom is john besh, and he and others an acknowledge that while some parts have bounce bounced back, there are other parts that need help, and he has a chefs move to the give scholarships for those who are thriving to have a goal to become a chef in their hometown. and on top of all of that, genre leased a new cook book called "besh big easy." and thank you for joining u and i could go on and on about how delicious the food is, a...