Chef jose andres biography of christopher columbus

When I arrived in Washington, D.C., in 1993, I was a young and ambitious chef with a dream to share my native Spain with America.

Then, of course, the Genoese Cristoforo Colombo—you would know him as Christopher Columbus—came to the Americas, sent by the Spanish king and.

The Spanish-born chef José Andrés, 46, has 21 restaurants around the country and in Puerto Rico, including the hot-ticket Minibar in.

Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator from the Republic of Genoa who completed four Spanish-based voyages across the Atlantic Ocean.

Andrés sailed into the New World like Columbus himself, in the rigging of the Juan Sebastián de Elcano, a four-masted Spanish navy ship.

The Spanish-born chef José Andrés, 46, has 21 restaurants around the country and in Puerto Rico, including the hot-ticket Minibar in....

The Untold Truth Of José Andrés

ByBrent FurdykandBrian Boone

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Chef José Andrés' culinary career began in his native Spain, where he attended Barcelona's Escola de Restauració i Hostalatge before apprenticing with chef Ferran Adrià at his famed restaurant el Bulli.

In 1991, Andrés' pursuit of his dreams took him to New York City, where he soon became a trailblazer in popularizing Spanish-style tapas in North America. Before long he began opening his own restaurants, eventually more than 30, all under the auspices of his ThinkFoodGroup organization, winning acclaim, fame, and numerous awards along the way.

Chef José Andrés has become a regular sight at scenes of disaster worldwide with his charitable organization World Central Kitchen (WCK), which.

As his star rose, Andrés wasn't content to merely forge new trails in food; he expanded his purview to include social activism. In 2010 he founded World Central Kitchen, a nonprofit devoted to feeding hungry mouths in the wake of natural disasters.

Andrés' efforts ranged from providing food to those who lost their homes to Califor