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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But you have restaurants all over the place. Yeah, Vegas, Chicago, Miami. Yeah.
You know, between restaurants, life, books, trips, TV, the new TV show. I have an NBC with Martha Stewart, Monday nights at 10 o'clock after The Voice. My work, my humanitarian work with World Central Kitchen. You know, policy work, which I will not say I work on policy. It's only like when I feel I can become one more voice to push smart policy on behalf of all Americans.
I just try to be a voice that brings politicians of both parties closer together to move forward something like I believe makes every single American better. And that's how I try to divide my time like all of us, right? For me, coming here was like the highlight because number one, you know, it's like, shit, will he invite me if I ask? At the same time, it's like, looks pretentious that you ask.
But again, for me, just coming here and get to be with you one-on-one, yeah, it was kind of in my bucket list of, I don't know, listening to you. I don't know if it's your voice. your looks, the easy conversation with no... No script. I mean, you keep asking questions and you have nothing in front of you. And I don't know how you keep every single time. I've been doing this forever.
I know, but you have superhuman brain powers.
No, no. I just only have on people that I'm actually interested in talking to. That's the secret. That's the secret, I see. It's very hard to talk to people you're not interested in talking to. If that was the case, if I was hired by some network, I would have to have notes. I'd have to ask you about some shit that I don't give a fuck about.
I'd have to talk to you about some nonsense that you're doing that I don't care about, and I'd have to feign interest. Blech. And it wouldn't be successful. The only reason this podcast works is genuine curiosity and an interest in the way people view the world. And I think we got that out of you today.
We all got a very beautiful view into the mind of a guy who really loves food and really loves people and lives life with passion. And anytime people get a chance to hear a person like you talk and see the world through your perspective... You know, it's inspirational. It inspires people. It excites people.
But that's all the people out there, Joe. Yeah. You know, in the last 15 years, especially in the last seven, eight after Maria, you know, I've been very much in every single hurricane and every single storm. Big earthquake, big tornado. You go and feed people. Obviously, I've been in Ukraine. I was there, what, almost 160, 170 days.
In the first year, I was there like, what, 90 days or something like that of my life. I crossed into Ukraine within, I was in Poland within 24 hours, and I was in Ukraine within a week. I arrived in Kiev when still the Russian troops were in the north of the city, Bucha, Irpin. I remember with World Central Kitchen we were the first NGO used to arrive to Bucha European feeding people
We never stopped. We reached half a million meals a day in Ukraine. Wow. Very quickly. 500 restaurants. That all the money we had from donations from people in America that they cannot be more given and people in Europe. And we channel that money through supporting the local restaurants. If they are available, I'm not going to open my own kitchen.
The same dollar that is going to help feed the refugees or the displaced people. is the same dollar that can help maintain the local economy flourishing. Nobody's getting rich. But the restaurants want to help. The people want to help. That's what people don't understand in emergencies, that everybody wants to be part of the solution.
What World Central Kitchen does is that allows everybody to be part of the solution. In Asheville, there was no World Central Kitchen helping feed, even both other organizations feed the people of Asheville and the different parts in North Carolina and the couple of other states that were hit by the post-effects of the hurricane was the people of Asheville that helped feed the people of Asheville.
And we then got a helicopter because we wanted to be cool, or another helicopter, or another one, if we had to. It's because there was no roads. And the only way to arrive to the people was by helicopter, like we did in Bahamas. We had six helicopters, two seaplanes, one boat with two helipads. Why we did it? Because there was no airports, because there was no control towers in the north.
There were 16 islands. Everything was destroyed and we had to feed 80,000 people. The only way to do it was that way. Asheville, North Carolina was exactly the same. The fires in California were exactly the same. How we did it, for example, in California, in Los Angeles. We are there trying to make sure the firefighters eat. Not like the system doesn't take care of the firefighters.
It's in place. Somebody, some organization, some catering is on paper getting paid to do it. But that's a business. In an emergency, you have to adapt because they're not going to let you go to the firefighters sometimes because it's one guy on the road that is trying to protect you from... But we have to go to them because those firefighters probably...
They're going to be fighting for 48 hours, nonstop, no break. You can see their eyes, how tired they are, and still they keep going. And if they have a break, you have to be near them to make sure that in that moment they're able to be fed, food they need, food they want. And that's what World Central Kitchen does.
But at the same time, the people escaping the fires, and the people arriving to the shelters, that sometimes in the middle of the night you get 3,000 people arriving to a shelter because Altadena was destroyed. And you have to be there with them. So we got a lot of restaurants, but we got a lot of food trucks too.
And the food trucks was great because the same way an ambulance is there on a call to bring somebody very quickly after a heart attack and the hospital has an option to save their lives, we use food trucks like an ambulance. Or we use food trucks like a fire truck. We have them there. We have them parked. We have many already feeding firefighters and shelters and people in their neighborhoods.
But we have 10 or 20 trucks on wait. Why? Because every truck is full of 1,000 or 2,000 meals. That means at any moment, today, tomorrow, at 3 a.m. in the morning, If something happens, we can activate those food trucks within a minute. In less than one hour, they can be feeding anybody, anywhere. So World Central Kitchen is not really an organization. It's a very simple idea.
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