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KERA's Think

Philanthropist chef Jose Andres gives hope through food

KERA's Think

KERA

Society & Culture, 071003, Kera, Think, Krysboyd

4.8861 Ratings

🗓️ 1 May 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

 José Andrés joins host Krys Boyd to discuss the hope and nourishment food brings to those in desperate need, how he built his humanitarian mission, and the types of people he surrounds himself with to make the world a better place. 

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0:00.0

If there's one thing we know about social media, it's that misinformation is everywhere,

0:07.2

especially when it comes to personal finance.

0:10.1

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0:16.0

so you can build a life you've always dreamed of.

0:19.5

I'm the host, Janelli Espinal, and each week I ask experts important money questions,

0:25.7

like how to negotiate job offers, how to choose a college that you can afford, and how to talk

0:32.0

about money with friends and family. Listen to financially inclined wherever you get your podcasts.

0:38.3

Sometimes it's porridge, sometimes pasta, sometimes stew, but lots of cultures have strikingly

0:56.1

similar folktales about bottomless pots. In all of them, no matter how many people come to

1:01.3

eat, these enchanted cauldrons never run out. And it's easy to imagine these fantasies were

1:07.0

dreamed up during lean times. From KERA in Dallas, this is think.

1:12.6

I'm Chris Boyd.

1:13.9

My guest was raised in Spain,

1:15.7

my parents who weren't always great with money,

1:18.0

but found ways to stretch recipes

1:19.8

to feed their foregrowing boys

1:21.5

and often friends and neighbors as well.

1:24.0

So when he moved to the U.S. to work as a chef,

1:26.3

he connected with the mission of an organization called D.C. Central Kitchen,

1:30.3

which gathered up uneaten food left over from hotel banquets and used it to feed people living on the streets.

1:36.4

And that would lead Jose Andres to an even bigger dream, which was to take that work beyond Washington to places where people were living through catastrophes.

1:44.9

World Central Kitchen has now served literally millions of meals, in Haiti after the earthquake,

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