José Andrés
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So we kept cooking.
And we went from 1,000 meals to 150,000 meals a day, more than 3.7 million meals in total, from 20 volunteers to 25,000 volunteers, from one kitchen to 26 kitchens.
The only thing we did was start cooking.
Every phone call we got, any email, tweet, Facebook, we are hungry.
We kept feeding anybody that asked us for a meal.
I mean, you imagine, right?
I think we are who we are thanks to, in a way, the food we eat.
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.