Brian Lear on WNYC now we'll talk with the renowned chef Jose Andres about

cooking and causes. On the cooking side, Chef Andres has a new TV special that

premieres today on Amazon called Dinner Party Diaries and he's got a new cookbook called

Zaitina delicious Mediterranean dishes from Greece, Turkey and Lebanon.

Chef Andres has a restaurant called Zaytina here in New York,

as some of you know, also one called The Bazaar

at the New Ritz-Carlton.

A couple of others in New York as well,

and so many around the world in major cities.

But Chef Jose Andres is also in the news for his humanitarian relief organization,

World Central Kitchen, which has brought food to many areas around the world,

including Ukraine, where they cite 260 million meals delivered since the Russian

invasion two years ago, and where at least four World Central Kitchen workers were injured in a bombing according to what I read

Chef Andre says Ukraine has now been forgotten and last week they ship 200 tons of food to

Gaza enough for a half million meals and he says they're prepared to send

much more by land, sea, and air.

Over time, they serve more than 37 million meals there,

they say.

This weekend, Chef Andres was on some of the network Sunday

talk shows and called for a cease fire in Gaza as the situation

becomes more dire. How dire? Here is UN Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez

yesterday after a report by the UN Food Program found an imminent risk of catastrophic

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