We Fed an Island: the True Story of Rebuilding Puerto Rico, One Meal at a Time
✍ Scribed by Andres, Jose
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 544 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN
- 0062864483
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✦ Synopsis
FOREWORD BY LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA AND LOUIS A. MIRANDA, JR.
The true story of how a group of chefs fed hundreds of thousands of hungry Americans after Hurricane Maria and touched the hearts of many more
Chef Jose Andres arrived in Puerto Rico four days after Hurricane Maria ripped through the island. The economy was destroyed and for most people there was no clean water, no food, no power, no gas, and no way to communicate with the outside world.
Andres addressed the humanitarian crisis the only way he knew how: by feeding people, one hot meal at a time. From serving sancocho with his friend Jose Enrique at Enrique's ravaged restaurant in San Juan to eventually cooking 100,000 meals a day at more than a dozen kitchens across the island, Andres and his team fed hundreds of thousands of people, including with massive paellas made to serve thousands of people alone.. At the same time, they also confronted...