How José Andrés Is Helping Feed Puerto Rico

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4.4 • 902 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2017

⏱️ 36 minutes

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On today's episode of the Upsell, Eater's resident José Andrés expert Monica Burton stops by to chat with Amanda and Dan about all the ways Andrés is being a super hero in Puerto Rico. 0:00 What José is up to in Puerto Rico. 9:00 Best of José Andrés episode. Original air date: 03/27/2017 Donate to World Central Kitchen here Update: Read Monica's latest José Andrés coverage ~~~ José Andrés is the chef that helped America fall in love with tapas. Now, he runs an empire of some 26 restaurants and is a passionate advocate for immigration reform (for which Obama awarded the chef a National Humanities Medal). Andrés is everywhere: D.C., Vegas, Miami, and even in the crosshairs of a legal battle with the current president, who sued after Andrés pulled out of a restaurant project at the Trump International Hotel in D.C. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Eder Uppsal, part of the Vox Media Podcast Network. I am Daniel Janine. I am an
0:06.2	associate producer at Eder and I'm joined as always by my partner in crime, Amanda Clute, Heaters, Senator-in-Chief.
0:14.0	We have a special episode this week.
0:17.0	We can't stop talking about Jose Andres, the superhero.
0:21.0	Superhero of the restaurant world.
0:22.0	Yeah. I don't know if you guys have all been following, but... superhero of the restaurant world.
0:23.0	I don't know if you guys have all been following,
0:24.8	but he is single-handedly saved the island
0:29.4	of Puerto Rico, right?
0:30.2	That's the story?
0:32.1	He's at least the face of the relief efforts.
0:34.0	Yeah, when the government wasn't acting, he got on a plane,
0:38.0	went down there, organized people,
0:40.0	got his restaurant friends to help,
0:41.0	and has been cooking meals for people on the island.
0:44.4	And now people are acting.
0:45.7	Yeah.
0:46.7	For those of you who don't know Jose Andres, he is a prolific restaurateur.
0:51.9	Dan, I think he owns 26 restaurants.
0:54.7	At least a year ago, that was the number.
0:57.8	We really did the research.
1:00.7	Most notably in Vegas and DC and he has a bunch of new restaurants coming to New York.
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