How a team of chefs fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria | José Andrés

After Hurricane Maria hit Puerto Rico in 2017, chef José Andrés traveled to the devastated island with a simple idea: to feed the hungry. Millions of meals served later, Andrés shares the remarkable story of creating the world's biggest restaurant — and the awesome power of letting people in need know that somebody cares about them.

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44 Comments on How a team of chefs fed Puerto Rico after Hurricane Maria | José Andrés

  1. Hi there! Long time viewer third time commenter. Would you please start offering your content in 4K video resolution? It makes for a much better experience. 2018 is the year of 4K. Embrace the future yo! love your channel! The 4K resolution revolution is now! #4K4EVAR

    • omg what happened to all those people? I only lived about 2 hours from there at the time. Nobody knew what was happening there. Why did they kill people like that? Nobody that I know of has taken responsibility for the mass deaths.

    • I work with people who where there and saw with their own eyes what happened. Some of them don’t even think they buried their parents that where left to die or killed trying to get out.

    • @Okay So Maybe YOUR reading comprehension is the problem if you choose to IGNORE the OP and its meaning.. If it has nothing to do with blaming Trump, then why is he even mentioned at all..?? Idiot.. But nice try..

    • TubeDeviant Ohh nooo, what a meta-counter analysis there, even used caps to emphasize that red-face yelling commonly associated with Trumpsters. I’ve been totalled by such sound logic. /s

    • @Tania Alejandra If you looked for articles, you would know that more than 600 million has been allocated for the reconstruction of schools in Puerto Rico.. But more importantly, Puerto Rico was in dire financial trouble BEFORE this natural disaster hit.. Trump’s fault as well..??

    • Sadly there are many people who would rather hear stories of horror and failure or maybe it was the accent who knows but I agree that there are 23 misguided complete idiots who disliked this video for whatever reasons and no one is going to change that. We all should rather take away from this what Jose Andre’s did and learn from it, build on it and be ready for the next natural disaster armed with information that can save lives. Peace.

  2. Inspiring! Do not send money to the RED CROSS they didnt do anything for Puerto Rico. SEND MONEY TO PEOPLE LIKE HIM

    • The only thing they did was send volunteers to distribute the food the government and other organizations brought. The first and only time i saw the Red Cross in the island was in december helping the military to distribute food in Aguada. Sincerely speaking blood is the only thing i would trust donating to them.
      (sorry for the bad english!)

  3. Yet 25.000 children die each day. I can understand some adults might not deserve the help, perhaps they will never pay back the respect or just don’t deserve it but children deserve a chance to live the most, they have yet to prove themselves as a worth to humanity. But nothing’s going to change because as long as it’s not happening to us, or at least close to us, it doesn’t exist.

    • All adults were once children, children without opportunity or people who cared how they turned out. We need to recognize adults are the result of how we treat them as children

    • J Girl of course. That’s just logic but recognizing that does nothing. While recognizing that humans are much more valuable to humanity when they are children than when they’re already adults, might help us raise better adults.

  4. Gracias,as a PRrican living in the US and having my family in the island seeing this is truly inspiring ….and now I so want sancocho…

  5. Great service, however he was paid to do this FEMA. He made money. Volunteers came and help for free but he got paid. The thing is that I really didn’t care however he started bashing FEMA and the president why? There was no need. He did a good until he got political then a fraud alert came out. That’s not true he wasn’t kick out with Ak47. Our churches delivered food and we used Suiza dairy and did alliances with mergers but he became political. He doesn’t say that. The Puerto Rico national guard got the water purification team took the water to Vieques. We provided support to him.

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