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Channels with Peter Kafka

José Andrés has a full plate, but he's adding more

Channels with Peter Kafka

Vox Media Podcast Network

Technology, Tv & Film, Business News, News

4.4585 Ratings

🗓️ 15 September 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

Chef José Andrés may very well be The Best Person. His nonprofit, World Central Kitchen, activates local restaurants to provide meals to people in crisis areas. He’s the man behind acclaimed restaurants like Jaleo and minibar. And, he’s a pure delight wherever he shows up, whether it be on TV or this podcast you’re looking at right now. And he has a new podcast and a Substack, both called “Longer Tables.” Recode’s Peter Kafka talks to Andrés about why he added another thing to his… plate. (Sorry.) Featuring: José Andrés (@chefjoseandres), Celebrity Chef Host: Peter Kafka (@pkafka), Senior Editor at Recode More to explore: Subscribe for free to Recode Media, Peter Kafka, one of the media industry's most acclaimed reporters, talks to business titans, journalists, comedians, and more to get their take on today's media landscape. About Recode by Vox: Recode by Vox helps you understand how tech is changing the world — and changing us. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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slash voxpod this is recode media peter kofka that is me and i think this is the first famous big deal celebrity chef that I have had on the show. Welcome, Jose Andreas.

1:16.6

I don't know about the celebrity chef, but thank you for having me. I'm going to call you a celebrity. I was doing the most casual of research, and I found this from 10 years ago in the Wall Street journals.

1:28.6

Jose Andres is all of these things at once, a man with 13 restaurants, a packed trophy case,

1:33.4

including a James Beard Award, a company with 800 employees, annual revenue of 75 million

1:38.7

TV shows in the U.S. Spain and Latin America, political connections throughout Washington,

1:43.0

a teaching gig at Harvard,

1:44.4

and a long resume of social activism. And my takeaway from that is that's woefully incomplete now

1:50.3

because you're doing even more. I've got podcasts and more media coming out, but I really wanted to

1:55.6

talk to you at the top of this about World Central Kitchen, because I think that's a big focus

1:59.5

for you, that you were just starting 10 years ago. So tell us what that is and what you do. Well, well, Zedra Kitchen

2:07.2

really happened after the experiences I got working in Washington, D.C.C. in a soup kitchen.

2:15.3

I began in 1993, almost 30 years ago. And I saw the power of food to

2:19.8

giving an opportunity to people. In this case, training homeless and ex-yll convicts and

2:28.8

and using food as a way to bring them in and teach them a profession, finding them jobs in the community,

2:35.3

and in the process feeding the people in need in D.C.

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