'I don't open restaurants, I tell stories': Chef Jos Andrs on his singular approach to food

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1. A good man. Andres deserves a congressional medal.

Andrés also sees food as a powerful vehicle for change. Outside the kitchen, he found a calling in the development of WCK following the massive 2010 earthquake in Haiti, which killed more than 200,000 people. Already chairman of Washington DC non-profit DC Central Kitchen, Andrés saw an opening to create an international organisation focused on direct aid through food.

"I'm a very impatient guy, and I don't like to see the things on the side-lines. I like to be in the game – boots on the ground," he says. "[In Haiti], we saw the devastation in an already very poor country, and I said, 'let me go not so much to help, let me go to start learning', and slowly I began learning that it doesn't require more than just the willingness to make it happen."

Thank you for this wonderful article, LMSP~