José Andrés

Work in Progress with Sophia Bush

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Music, Arts, Comedy

4.7 • 3.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2021

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José Andrés, chef/owner of ThinkFoodGroup, New York Times bestselling author, television personality, and founder of World Central Kitchen, joins Sophia today! Known for bringing small plates to the States, he has been twice named one of Time Magazine’s “100 Most Influential People.” José has been awarded the National Humanities Medal, and was named “Outstanding Chef” and “Humanitarian of the Year” by the James Beard Foundation. José Andrés spices up our show as he and Sophia discuss his non-profit World Central Kitchen, the ways in which food is connected to so many of the world's issues, and how it can become part of the solution.

Executive Producers: Sophia Bush & Rabbit Grin Productions

Associate Producers: Caitlin Lee & Josh Windisch

Editor: Josh Windisch

Artwork by the Hoodzpah Sisters

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, it's Sophia and welcome back to work in progress.
0:14.4	Today's guest is a world renowned chef and owner of Think Food Group, Jose Andres.
0:20.5	I am just so happy to have Jose here as he is a chef and an incredible global humanitarian.
0:28.7	He's all about food and activism, which as you know are two things I love the most.
0:34.8	Jose is known for bringing small plates or tapas from Spain to the United States,
0:39.8	but you might know him more for a number of other reasons. He's a New York Times best-selling
0:44.4	author, he is a television personality, he is the owner of nearly 20 restaurants, including
0:49.7	Minibar, which has received two stars from the DC edition of the Michelin Guide,
0:54.0	and he is the founder of World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit devoted to providing meals in the wake
1:00.3	of natural disasters. Jose has been awarded the National Humanities Medal, he was named outstanding chef
1:07.2	and humanitarian of the year by the James Beard Foundation, and he has been twice named one of
1:12.9	time magazines 100 most influential people. He and I got to talk today about how he first became
1:18.4	interested in food, his childhood in Spain, his career in the restaurant industry, and how that led
1:24.7	to his work around the world to help end food scarcity and hunger. Without further ado, let's jump
1:31.7	in and get cooking on this episode with chef Jose Andres.
1:43.7	Chef, it's such an honor to have you on the show today, and I'm really excited to talk about your work
1:54.0	and World Central Kitchen and your activism, but before we get into all of the amazing things that
1:59.2	you're up to now, I'd like to go back a bit and start closer to the beginning, because I'm curious
2:05.5	about a young Jose, I know that you grew up in, what is the proper pronunciation? Is it Mietis?
2:12.1	Mietis, that's the perfect pronunciation. Okay, good. So you grew up in Mietis, Spain, and I've never been
2:21.4	to that part of Spain, and I'm wondering if you could tell us a little bit about it, and you know,
2:26.0	what were you up to as a little kid? So Mietis is a mining town, mining has slowly been fading away,
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