José Andrés
speaker
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 mean, listen, in Spain we say, I don't have a grandmother anymore. My grandmother is dead. You know when you are the one that you give, you say how good you are yourself? You say you don't have a grandma. It was so good. Fluffy. Egg on egg. Egg on oil. Together.
That emulsion of mayo and egg that has so much air was like putting a lot of air inside the egg itself. Oh, my God. Try it. It's the quickest omelet anybody can be. And then you can top it with caviar. You can top it with mushrooms or smoked salmon or sauteed spinach. Delicious.
But what is your favorite thing to cook? Do you have a favorite thing to cook, or do you just like cooking everything? I like the big pot. A big pot. I like to cook something. Like paella.
Like paella.
Yeah. I love paella.
Like paella on an open fire. Ooh, yeah, like a big cast iron pot. When I was young, my father was a cook at heart, but he was a nurse. But when he was not at the hospital, he would be cooking for friends on the weekends. My mom was more Monday through Friday. My father was more the weekend cook. And the paella is something he will invite 10, 20, 30, 40 people. He had different sizes.
My father would invite everybody. But he would never keep count of whom. 10 could show up or 30. My mom always was like... But how do we prepare? My dad said, ah, big problems have easy solutions, simple solutions. If more people come, we add more rice to the pan. But he always brought extra pans because he never knew the size. He put me in charge of making the fire.
He would send me to the forest. I'll gather the wood. I'll make the fire. He'd put the pie on top, three rocks or whatever. One day I got very upset because I wanted to cook. I knew how to do the fire. I was tired of the fire. I wanted to cook the paella. But the fire required somebody dedicated. My father got upset with me because I was very persistent, sent me away. He cooked without me.
When he came back, when I came back and everybody ate, he told me, my son, everybody wants to do the cooking. Everybody wants to stir the pot. Nobody seems to be interested in making the fire. Actually, making the fire is the most important thing. Control the fire. And then you can do any cooking you want.
I don't know if my father's words were as deep as now, many years later, I made them to become in my brain. But I think my father was trying to tell me that. That obviously was a great direct lesson for John Cook in the making. But I think my father, in a way, that was a great metaphor for life itself. Find your fire. Control your fire. Master it. And then, my friend, go and do the cooking.
When you set up Bizarre Meats... In Vegas, what made you decide to cook over open fire that way with hardwood, which I really love, those grill works grills with the Argentine-style grills with the wheel. You raise and lower the grill over the natural wood fire.
I love that. I've seen that since I was a little boy.
How good is that ham, Jamie?
Prometheus... Pretty damn good, right?
Have you eaten at that place with us before? Yeah, we ate there, right? How good is that place? Yeah, the ham there is this ham.
Prometheus, one of the titans, Prometheus gave... In a way, they would say that man was created from clay. And Prometheus gave also... meant the control of fire. That was the gift from Prometheus. So we come from clay and we control the fire. Nothing for me as a young boy was more fascinating than seeing the very big clay pots on open fires.
The paella my father made with this very big metal paella pan. But we will have also our terracotta. If you come to my house right now, I have terracotta pots everywhere. I also have the biggest grill wall that any human can have in their private home. Do we have a photo of that?
Of your grill wall?
Do we have a grill wall there somewhere? Yeah. But me cooking with fire, with vines, orange tree, making the fire in the countryside with the terracotta that you put the water and you put the meat and you put the pork and you put the vegetables and you put the chickpeas and you boil it and you are doing what you do when you are in the forest or in the countryside.
Do you like the big pots because you know you're going to serve a big party of people with it? So it's like the communal aspect of it? It's like it's the closest thing if the man is the cook.
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