He's turned his New York and Washington D.C. restaurants into community kitchens amid the COVID-19 outbreak, and for years has made it his mission to feed people in need during times of crisis. This is the life of chef José Andrés.
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00:00We're doing this because we understand that there's going to be people in need of food,
00:03that they cannot go to the supermarket, that maybe they don't have help at home
00:07and they are elderly or people that have issues with their immune system.
00:10You come here, order and pay, people here go tap, nobody touches anything.
00:20If you are unable to pay at this time, please enjoy your meal free of charge.
00:27We can do this, we can feed America.
00:50Please be strong, we can change the world through the power of food
00:55and more than ever, the food industry together.
00:59We are going to be playing a big role in the weeks and months to come.
01:56We need to be bold, it's the 21st century, it's a moment to be bold,
02:02to be nuts, to be crazy and to try things that maybe we didn't try before.
02:55I really feel good when I put aside my job of feeding celebrities and me and many other chefs
03:13we take care of, for example, feeding the hungry, those people that don't know what they're going
03:18to be eating every day or making sure that our children tomorrow are going to be better fed at
03:23the schools. That's what I really fight hard for.
03:42Chef, we open restaurants and restaurants are about restoration and you restore the
03:48body and the soul and I guess what I do is use the restoring hopefully help restore the
03:52faith and the soul and the hope of people one meal at a time.
04:14I think the new American dream is not anymore about taking care of yourself and the people
04:18you know and you love but the new American dream is about taking care of others you don't know,
04:24achieving the same things you are trying to achieve for your own.
04:48They're bringing drugs, they're bringing crime, they're rapists.
05:18So
05:35hello people of America, people of the world, today big news, 21 days in this beautiful island
05:42of Puerto Rico and I can tell you World Central Kitchen, Chefs of Puerto Rico Initiative, we are
05:49about to reach today one million meals cooked by the men and women of Puerto Rico. Big day. I love you all.
06:43So
06:53and this is gonna be hard before
06:57it becomes any better. We're gonna go through dark times but let me tell you in darkness
07:06sometimes you only need the light used to illuminate the way so let's hope for that light
07:15let's hope that this will happen sooner rather than later.