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
When I came to El Bulli, right away I knew I was becoming part of something incredible. It was like watching the Big Bang happening right in front of me.
Women's cooking has always had a big influence on me personally.
The only way to have a better world and end poverty is by closing the gap between the top and the bottom.
When you cook a sausage, the skin sometimes breaks and the ground meat comes apart.
When you become an American, they give you an injection so your accent changes.
The modernity of yesterday is the tradition of today, and the modernity of today will be tradition tomorrow.
When you use a simple gelatin like collagen, you can get flavor that is 100 percent pure, maybe event 150 percent.
With their bright color and fantastic balance of acidity and sweetness, tomatoes are a natural refresher and the perfect element for meals on warm and sultry days.
When we are trying to come up with new health laws, you bring doctors, you bring experts in medicine. In urban planning, you bring the best architects. How it is possible that when we are talking about the way we are going to feed America, no chef shows up in the room?