This TED Talk features chef and humanitarian Jose Andres, recorded live at TEDx Mid-Atlantic

2017.

All right.

Let's get ready for the worst talk ever.

I mean it.

We prepared 30 minutes ago.

I want to be clear. I love to be here with you all, but I wanted to be here, not to tell my story, but to tell the story of the amazing people of Puerto Rico that came together to feed the people of Puerto Rico.

My name is Jose Andres, and you know I love to feed the few, but even more,

I love to feed the many. Here, right after the hurricane, like we've done many times before,

after an earthquake in Haiti or Sunday or others, I had this sense of urgency to be there and to try to feed one person.

And always you have crazy friends that they want to join you in those impossible endeavors.

I'm always surrounded by amazing friends that only helped me to be better.

Nate came next to me. This was a Monday, and this is what we found. The destruction used

on TV, one more hurricane. But this destruction was real. More than 95% of the electricity

in the island was gone. Every single electric pose was gone. All the cell towers were gone.

You couldn't communicate with anybody.

You couldn't find anybody in the moment you move away from San Juan.

Even in San Juan, we had issues trying to use our cell phones.

And what I found was that the island was hungry,

and that people didn't have or money because ATMs were not working,

or their cards which are electronic for food stamps,

they couldn't use it in their supermarkets,

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