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Chef Jose Andres: 'Hunger is beyond politics'

Capehart

The Washington Post

News Commentary, Politics, News

4.61.4K Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 75 minutes

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Summary

There's a reason chef Jose Andres was selected to throw out the first pitch at game 5 of the World Series. At a live event recorded earlier this year, Andres talks about leadership, humanity and how disaster response needs to change.

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Hi everyone. I'm Jonathan Cape Heart and welcome to Cape Up. There's a reason

0:06.5

Chef Jose Andres was asked to throw out the ceremonial first pitch at game five of

0:11.0

the World Series. He's an immigrant, an activist, and a humanitarian. I sat down with

0:16.7

Chef Andres at a live recording of K-P-P-Up at NYU's scoreboard theater earlier this year.

0:22.4

He'd just return from helping with disaster relief in Mozambique.

0:26.0

We talked about that, his efforts in Puerto Rico, Haiti, and Washington, D.C. during the government shutdown,

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and how disaster response could change.

0:35.7

What comes through is human decency and moral leadership.

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And you can hear all of it right now.

0:42.4

We're getting a standing ovation, do you see that?

0:46.0

Yeah.

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I think are the ones that think I'm cooking tonight.

0:52.0

I don't know, to be so disappointed.

0:55.0

Well, Chef Andres, thank you very much for being here.

0:59.0

This is a live taping of my Washington Post podcast, Cape Up, and I'm surprised you're awake.

1:05.7

You just got back from Mozambique.

1:08.3

Yeah, but it was already a few days ago.

1:11.8

But why were you in Mozambique? What took you there? Well I think you saw the video. That's

1:16.6

very much what World Central Kitchen does. So I think you know what happened with the cyclone in Moz and the town of Beira.

1:27.4

If you've never been to Beira, it's an unbelievable city.

1:31.2

But the area of Fenton is huge. So hundreds of thousands of families. Millions of people were

1:36.8

affected by this. And everybody moved very much around the Vera area where it's different

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