José Andrés
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675 appearances
3 recordings
3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
José Andrés’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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I collect all... What's the book called? The Physiology of Taste. The Physiology of Taste. and Telm Brijat Sabaran. He's the guy that said, tell me what you eat, and I will tell you who you are.
When was the printing press created? I don't get it. Is this a handwritten book?
No, no. It's a printing press. No, no, that's a printing press. This is it here? Briatza Verano.
And I own a first edition. Wow. Physiology of Taste.
Yeah, that's one of the later, this is a much later version in English.
Transcendental Gastronomy. What language is yours in?
French. Wow. And I have the first one printed in Spanish that was not printed in Spain, but in Mexico City. Oh, wow. And he said, tell me what you eat and I'll tell you who you are. But he said something more important. He said, My French is not very good, but more or less. The destiny of the nations will depend on how they feed themselves.
Wow. Right. And America's destiny is fat people. Fat people eat and process food.
Well, I think if we are not careful, it's the destiny of the world. Right. If we're not careful. But take a look at now. Come on. You go to the gas station. I remember when I was young and I went to the gas station, the gas station had a little restaurant that was not even a restaurant. It was like a diner. But for me, it was like a high-end restaurant.
And once every two months or three months, my father would take us there. The restaurant in the gas station. And I thought it was great. Like, are we going to a restaurant? This is the days that we always cook home. We never went to restaurants. But I'm only saying this because when we went to the gas station, to go to the restaurant happens what's next to the gas station.
But when my father went in to pay for the gas, he paid for the gas at that set. There was nothing else there. This was the place to pay for the gas. And it happens the restaurant was there. That was the only food. Go now to the gas station. Oh, my God. You live with 25,000 calories. So you are feeding your car and in the process you are the Cheerios and the M&Ms and the sneakers. Oh, my God.
It's like the gas station now is... I'm telling you, those gas stations are owned by those aliens that are to make sure we are really, really overweight so one day they harvest us and they take us to their planets. I do believe the gas stations of the world, they belong to the alien species. It's trying to make us all fat. But put that. So, yeah. Why are we so overweight?
Because I used to walk to go to school. Walk. Walk. Walk for an hour. One hour to go, one hour to come back. My father worked in the morning. My mom worked at night. We had one car. But for me, I could do it in 20 minutes. It took me an hour because my life was walking through cherry trees and the forest and the farms. But I will go walking. It's not like I'm going in Uber.
I will be walking and come back walking. And life had changed. I'm going to the train, walking, and then from the train to the subway, I had to take a train and a subway. And then from the subway, I had to walk. It's other times. Now life is very easy. You have calories everywhere, calories everywhere. You wake up in the morning, and you open your eyes, and you are already calories.
And that's one of the problems, and that's why we are all... fighting against those calories that are not making us any healthier.
Yeah, it's not calories. It's the type of calories. It's processed food that you can keep on the shelf forever. Because food's not supposed to be able to sit on the shelf like that forever. And the kind of food that can is not healthy for you. That's why it doesn't rot. It doesn't rot because it's not alive. But eating too much of anything.
I could argue with you that it's a big conversation. And I'm not going to come here. Actually, I'm going to Disagree with myself because I can agree with myself because we can have the same conversation and use the conversation from two different points of view. It's been obviously the very easy attack to the fast food industry, to the junk food industry.
to call it whatever, on the pandemic and the obesity, to the soda industry. And again, I'm not going to be the one here now becoming the Robin Hood defending them. But at the same time, they are not the only ones part of the problem either. Look at me. I'm overweight. I promise you by the end of this year, 2025, I'm going to get close to 210 pounds, and I'm never going to move from there.
I've been fighting. I used to be 280. I was able to bring it down already to 215. I went up. Right now I'm in 245. But I'm going to bring it down to 210, and I'm never, never going back because I own it to myself, to my wife, to my children. I own it because, in a way, as chefs, we are also an example. And I'm not going back. I'm not overweight because junk food.
I'm not overweight because fast food. I'm not overweight because sodas. I'm overweight because I eat too much. Because the food I eat is very good food. You can get fat on carrots and gazpacho too. Sure. So we leave this conundrum, right? We have... People that are poor right now, that used not to happen, and if you were poor, you were skinny, and maybe you were hungry.
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