José Andrés
The Catalyst
Ideas with a spark, energy, range and the ability to start things.
José Andrés reads as The Catalyst because he leads by ignition, converting conviction into collective action. As a chef and humanitarian, his instinct is to gather people around an urgent purpose and set them moving, treating food as both craft and cause.
“Reality is going to happen, and I'm sure it's going to happen. Virginia Islands is still trying to come back to normal. Other islands like Dominica, but Puerto Rico, I can tell you, if we get hit by another hurricane, I don't know what is going to happen the day after.”
“Well, listen, the men and women of Red Cross they only can receive my compliments because they are amazing. They leave everything behind and use the go to serve fellow Americans.”
“Well, at the time I was young 23 years old, I came as the head chef, but my partner who found me, Roberto Albert, who he became the Dominican Republic ambassador in the United States, and Rob Wilder, they are the ones that gave me the opportunity to have a place to belong.”
“One is an NYU, first year, the other two. But they love this type of work and I have to make sure that now they don't all want to go into humanitarian work on their own. But they're good girls and they came, for example, with me to Puerto Rico. On Thanksgiving Day, we did more than 40,000 Thanksgiving meals.”
The David Rubenstein Show: “José Andrés”
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