José Andrés
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3 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 11 Feb
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And now we are in this situation that you have people that are poor, and it's difficult to explain, and it seems that they're overweight. Because the food they are able to buy is very cheap because it's all this junk food, you say, and that's part of the problem. And they are not only overweight but unhealthy because they're bad calorie, bad quality food because they cannot afford anything else.
And sometimes it's not only about affording. It's because they don't have access to anything else. And there goes again about one of the big conversations. Food is a superpower. Right. And it's a superpower the governments need to use for the betterment of the lives of their citizens. And goes beyond putting food on the plate.
Goes beyond making sure that... When I tell every American when I speak in every state, red or blue, urban areas or rural areas, every time I say every American children deserves to be fed, and no American family should be poor and hungry ever again. Everybody claps. This is the truth that brings everybody together. Yes. And you could argue why we have people who are poor or hungry.
And then we talk, okay, and what is the role of government making sure that we don't have poor and hungry? If we have a government, I would say in part is to make sure that we take care of the less privileged and the poor and the hungry and the ones that lose their jobs and the veterans that come back home and they are... I think we need to have government for that.
And government should do a better job in making sure that every children in America is fed. And making sure that it's not throwing money at the problem, but investing in solutions.
Yeah.
Let me give you an example.
I was 23. A charity called DC Central Kitchen. funded by a guy called Robert Egger, a barman, crazy guy. You need to invite him to this show if I can recommend you people that will give you amazing conversation about these issues. And he saw that food waste was wrong. But everybody was, he was talking about food waste before anybody was talking about food waste.
On President Bush inauguration day, he got a track And he went to every hotel that they had these huge quantities of food on the parties after the inauguration that nobody touched. And he got them in the truck, brought them to a central kitchen, repackaged everything, and began feeding the homeless in D.C. Thirty-plus years later, that organization is doing 15,000, 20,000 meals a day.
But it's not about feeding. It's an organization that began bringing homeless into their kitchen, ex-convicts into their kitchen. People couldn't find a job because they were in jail. Those convicts, those homeless, all of the seven, They were receiving dignity, the dignity that society for some reason was not giving them.
American-born citizens that were not receiving the same opportunity to belong as these young immigrants called Jose Andres that came from overseas. And very often I got many doors open. People that for whatever reason in life fall behind. The kitchen gave them a place to belong. And in the process, they began learning how to cook.
The organization, this is Andra Kitchen, was teaching them how to cook. In the process, they were making the meals with that leftover unused food that they will produce, and then the organization will feed the local homeless.
In the process, CEOs and volunteers from around America will come to join forces, volunteering next to those ex-combates and those homeless, that they were not combates or homeless anymore. And in the process, food was becoming a place of building longer tables.
So the $1 to feed one homeless was also the $1 to give hope, was the $1 to give training, was the $1 to rescue food, was the $1 that those men and women, when they graduated, Restaurants like me will hire them. So $1 for human resources. All of a sudden was no $1 thrown at the problem. We feed the poor and forever we'll have to spend the dollar to feed the poor.
But no, it was $1 to build up the entire economy of a city in the process of taking care of their most vulnerable. Robert Egger told me that philanthropy seems it's always about the redemption of the giver when actually that's the wrong approach. Philanthropy always must be about the liberation of the receiver.
When you tell me what the role of our government should be, our government should be here to make sure that they invest in their citizens. And food is a good place for our government to be investing in our citizens.
It's also... It's looking at the long game too because the rising tide lifts all boats. The more people contribute to society, the stronger the economy is. Even though it would cost money, it would bring in more money. You would have less crime. You would have less poverty. You would have less everything. You would have less need. You would have less have-nots and more haves.
Everything would be better. Snaps. Yeah.
It's a big conversation right now. Yeah. Snaps, which is what people call as food stamps. Snaps is a temporary. It can be a day, a month, a year for families that fall behind. that the government give you that food dollar, that dollar assistance for food. And it's been very controversial. And it's politics around it. There's a way Democrats won, there's a way Republicans won.
But everybody forgets really about the right talk, which is what is the right policy? How do we, if somebody complains, oh, food stamps has not,
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