Jose Andres Puerta
Jose Andres Puerta
José Ramón Andrés Puerta, known as José Andrés, is a Spanish American chef often credited for bringing the small plates dining concept to America. He owns restaurants in Washington DC, Beverly Hills, Las Vegas, South Beach, Dorado and Philadelphia. Andrés is chair of the advisory board for LA Kitchen, a social enterprise in Los Angeles, California that works to reduce food waste, provide job training, and increase access to nutritious food...
NationalitySpanish
ProfessionChef
Date of Birth13 July 1969
CountrySpain
For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.
After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.
In Hong Kong, 'wonton' means swallowing a cloud.
As immigrants, we understand better than most that to be an American is a privilege that conveys not just rights but responsibilities.
Don't put too many chefs to work. Sometimes they get too involved in the ingredients and are of no help.
As chefs, we work with organizations like Oxfam to enrich their projects with culinary tools, recipes and ideas.
I think every chef should have a food truck. It's a good way to test the markets, to invest in meeting the future restaurant goers.
I was very impressed with the street food of Singapore. I was very impressed with the dishes that they did.
Everyting starts to happen at my home at 7 A. M., 7:20, when you hear the orange juicer. That means my daughters are already making the fresh Clementine juice.
I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.
In this game of politics, it's always kind of blame.
If you ask me about Napoleon, I'll tell you about his relationship with sugar. And canning - thanks to Napoleon, we have canning.
There is nothing better than picking up sun-warmed tomatoes and smelling them, feeling them and scrutinizing their shiny skins for imperfections, dreaming of ways to serve them.
Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.