The Interview José Andrés, chef and humanitarian: Food is a human right
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Feb 23, 2026 
José Andrés, chef and founder of World Central Kitchen who pioneered rapid-food-response aid, talks about feeding people with dignity. He discusses speedy, creative crisis logistics. He explains risks for aid workers and the politics of food in war. He urges smarter international coordination and highlights rising domestic and global disaster needs.
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From DC Central Kitchen To Haiti Kickstarting World Central Kitchen
- José Andrés learned to scale feeding from working at DC Central Kitchen and seeing cooks turn unused hotel food into meals for the homeless.
- He applied that model in Haiti 2010, arriving with small kitchens then expanding to serve hundreds of thousands by finding local fires, food and people to cook.
Scale Humanitarian Feeding By Partnering Locally
- Start small and scale by learning local systems and partnering with experienced local organisations like Anera in Gaza.
- Build warehouses, send constant trucks and recruit local staff so Palestinians feed Palestinians to expand capacity to a million meals a day.
Push Authorities And Allies To Increase Humanitarian Access
- Keep pressing authorities for access and push for more trucks, tents and essential supplies when humanitarian corridors are restricted.
- Andrés calls for Arab states and the UN to increase resources and permissions to boost aid flow into Gaza tenfold.