José Andrés
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
They celebrate life.
I was lucky enough to have a restaurant in Dorado for the last few years.
But then, Maria, the hurricane was coming, and I was watching.
My team and I, we already were in Houston.
We made a few hundred thousand meals.
We were kind of all right.
hurricane hit on the first plane, we landed.
And we began making few meals, few thousand meals a day.
But we saw that the problem was getting, if anything, bigger and bigger.
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.