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
I love cooking for the sake of understanding how people before me used to feed themselves, used to feed their families.
I have an amazing wife and three daughters that always keep me motivated.
I don't know any group of professionals that mobilize as fast and as often as chefs do when there are people who are in need.
I don't believe in traditional company structures because the best ideas do not always come from the top.
I always say that I don't believe I'm a chef. I try to be a storyteller.
For me, summer hasn't really started until tomatoes reappear in local farmers' markets.
For me, Romesco is one of the greatest sauces in the world.
I am from Spain, but my family and I have made America our home. For the last 17 years, I have been cooking Spanish food in Washington, D.C.
IBM has research and development; so do Microsoft and Nike and even Jose Andres. But there hasn't been enough R&D on feeding people in the Third World. This has to be part of the process; if not, we'll keep throwing money at the problem instead of investing in true solutions.
Iberico de Bellota is best when cooked medium rare with a nice, pink center to allow the delicious acorn-infused flavor to come through.
I believe the future is vegetables and fruits. They are so much more sexier than a piece of chicken.
Today we take New England clam chowder as something traditional that makes our roots as American cooking very solid, with a lot of foundation. But the first person who decided to mix potatoes and clams and bacon and cream, in his own way 100 to 200 years ago, was a modernist.
Even today with the public's growing interest in food and diet issues, politicians rarely include food as part of their political platforms.
Everyone should wake up and have a fresh-squeezed orange every day. By having a fresh glass of orange juice with American oranges, you are supporting the local economy, you have all the vitamin C you need in a day, and you support the environment because you don't use any plastic from bottles or bags.