José Andrés
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And it's okay in emergencies you just give the MREs the meals ready to eat.
But that was created for our military during war.
I saw in Haiti that kids, even hungry, they didn't want to eat those MREs.
They prefer to use a humble plate of beans and rice.
That brings comfort.
Even I was cooking in Haiti, and I made those beans.
And we cooked for almost a camp, a refugee camp of 1,000 people.
And the woman came to me with a translator.
And they were saying like, we don't like that.
And I was like, what?
They wanted to eat their beans in the way they liked them.
They didn't want them whole.
They wanted them pureed, to make the beans into a sauce.
You know what we did?
We followed their guidance.
We made them into a sauce.
All of a sudden, they were happy.