José Andrés
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José Ramón Andrés Puerta (born 13 July 1969) is a Spanish-American chef and founder of World Central Kitchen (WCK), a non-profit dedicated to providing meals in the aftermath of natural disasters.
He is often credited with the introduction of the small plates dining style to America.
He owns restaurants in Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Las Vegas, South Beach, Florida, Orlando, New York City, and Frisco, Texas.
At a 2016 White House ceremony, he was awarded the National Humanities Medal for his work with World Central Kitchen.
Early life and education
José Ramón Andrés Puerta was born in Mieres, Asturias, Spain.
When Andrés was six years old, his family moved to Catalonia. He began cooking for an admiral at the age of 15, and when he had to finish his Spanish military service at the age of 18, he was assigned to cook for an admiral. Ferrand Adrià was born in Barcelona, and he spent three years at El Bulli, from 1988 to 1990. He was fired by Adrià in December 1990 and moved to the United States.
Personal life
Andrés is married to Patricia "Tichi" Fernández de la Cruz and has three children; they live in Bethesda, Maryland, United States. He met his wife while they were both living in Washington, D.C.; she is from Cadiz, Andaluca, Spain's southwest region.
In December 2013, he became a naturalized United States citizen.
Culinary career
Andrés, a 21-year-old boy, arrived in New York City with $50 (equivalent to $104 in 2021), to cook in midtown Manhattan at an outpost of a famous Spanish restaurant, Eldorado Petit. During his stay in New York, he also appeared at The Quilted Giraffe's service.
He was recruited to lead the kitchen at Jaleo, a new tapas restaurant in Washington, D.C., in 1993. He and two more Jaleo outposts helped the owners open more restaurants: Cafe Atlantico, Zaytinya, and Oyamel in subsequent years.
Andrés opened a minibar, a restaurant space within a larger restaurant, in 2003. A month before, the minibar is dedicated to the most innovative Andrés plates, and reservations are expected to fill up.
Andrés became more popular in his native Spain, appearing in his own cooking show, Valiant a Cocinar, which debuted in 2005, as his restaurants in America flourished. In 2005, he released Tapas: A Taste of Spain in America, his first book.
He joined ThinkFoodGroup in 2006, making Andrés a co-owner in his restaurants. They opened new restaurants in Miami, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Puerto Rico as a group.
Andrés began teaching a culinary physics course at Harvard University with Ferran Adrià in the fall of 2010. Andrés was named dean of Spanish Studies at The International Culinary Center in May 2012, where he and Colman Andrews developed a curriculum in traditional and modern Spanish cuisine, which debuted in February 2013. On October 29th, 2012, he announced that he was returning to the classroom and would teach his first course on how food shapes civilization at George Washington University.
Andrés intend to open a restaurant in the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C., in 2016. Andrés withdrew from the Trump Organization after Donald Trump made disparaging remarks about undocumented Mexican immigrants in June 2015. Andrés protested, and the parties signed a deal in April 2017. Andrés remains a vocal critic of Trump.