José Andrés, acclaimed chef and founder of the NGO World Food Kitchen, offers this lively first-person account of how he and a cohort of local and visiting chefs and other volunteers provided millions of freshly made meals to Puerto Rico’s inhabitants after the devastation of Hurricane Maria in 2017. Contrasting his own successful efforts with the limited efficacy of giant relief organizations like FEMA and the Red Cross, Andrés forcefully advocates for his vision for a new kind of disaster relief and food aid, focusing on localized efforts to prepare and provide food made with locally sourced ingredients with an emphasis on jumpstarting a damaged economy as well as feeding the hungry. Continue reading “Book Review: We Fed an Island: The True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time, by José Andrés (with Richard Wolffe)”
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