{"id":434371,"date":"2022-04-19T22:28:42","date_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:28:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/chef-jose-andres-expanding-ukraine-food-kitchens-despite-missile-attack\/"},"modified":"2022-04-19T22:28:42","modified_gmt":"2022-04-19T19:28:42","slug":"chef-jose-andres-expanding-ukraine-food-kitchens-despite-missile-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chef-jose-andres-expanding-ukraine-food-kitchens-despite-missile-attack\/","title":{"rendered":"#Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s &#8216;expanding&#8217; Ukraine food kitchens despite missile attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a5026bc3a76e\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a5026bc3a76e\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/chef-jose-andres-expanding-ukraine-food-kitchens-despite-missile-attack\/#%E2%80%9CChef_Jose_Andres_%E2%80%98expanding_Ukraine_food_kitchens_despite_missile_attack%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s &#8216;expanding&#8217; Ukraine food kitchens despite missile attack&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CChef_Jose_Andres_%E2%80%98expanding_Ukraine_food_kitchens_despite_missile_attack%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Chef Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s &#8216;expanding&#8217; Ukraine food kitchens despite missile attack&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Jennifer Gould\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=152 152w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=114 114w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=76 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png?w=38 38w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/author-jennifer-gould.png 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>     <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Days after a Russian missile hit a community kitchen in Ukraine operated by Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s, the celebrity chef says he\u2019s still cooking.<\/p>\n<p>Four workers at Andres\u2019 World Central Kitchen partner restaurant<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>were wounded along with dozens of others. At least one person was killed. Yet the fast-growing chain of kitchens are still open after serving up nearly 12 million meals since Russia\u2019s invasion began Feb. 25.<\/p>\n<p>Hospitalized staffers at the destroyed kitchen say they want to get back to work when their burns heal. Others have managed to salvage food and equipment that is already with one of the other two dozen WCK kitchens in war-torn Kharkiv.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf anything we are expanding,\u201d Andr\u00e9s told Side Dish on Monday. \u201cEverybody is still cooking and taking care of people. If the children are here, we are here. We opened 10 more restaurants today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Spanish-born American celebrity chef \u2014 based in Washington, DC \u2014 has restaurants across the US, including New York. Andr\u00e9s launched WCK in 2010 to help people survive natural disasters.\u00a0This is his first war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs it scary? Of course. It\u2019s a war,\u201d Andr\u00e9s said. \u201cYou can be hit by a bomb or missile at any time. But people need our help.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you are delivering food to places where the Russians just left and you realize there are mines all around you, and sirens keep going off right and left, you know you are in a different situation,\u201d he added. \u201cBut we\u2019re never going to solve problems without taking some risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9s is one of the first two recipients of Jeff Bezos\u2019 $100 million Courage and Civility award, and he\u2019s using some of the money in Ukraine, which is WCK\u2019s biggest operation to date. The things he\u2019s seen he will never forget. WCK was in Kramatorsk when the train station \u2014 where thousands of women and children were trying to get to safety \u2014 was bombed, killing at least 54 people. <\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9s also was in Bucha, where Russians committed horrific war crimes \u2014 rape, torture and murder \u2014 hours after its liberation.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kramatorsk4.jpg?w=1024\" alt=\"Kramatorsk on April 7, the day before the bombing.\" class=\"wp-image-21957560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kramatorsk4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kramatorsk4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Kramatorsk4.jpg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Andr\u00e9s said there needs to be some risk taken in order to serve those who need food.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">World Central Kitchen\/WCK.org<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Poland1.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\" Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s\" class=\"wp-image-21957582\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Poland1.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Poland1.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Poland1.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Chef Andr\u00e9s says his chains of kitchens are \u201cexpanding,\u201d even in the middle of the conflict. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">World Central Kitchen\/WCK.org<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWhen you see cars destroyed with children\u2019s seats and you know this was a family trying to flee, it touches you,\u201d Andr\u00e9s said. \u201cAnd when you deliver food to people who haven\u2019t had real food in more than 30 days, you see the sorrow and the h<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>iness \u2014 the horror of what they experienced and the happiness of liberation \u2014 not a real happiness, but a contained happiness. It\u2019s difficult to explain but you see it in their eyes.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLike the first time I arrived in Bucha. I said I\u2019d come back with more food and they were surprised when I did. It\u2019s this kind of reassurance people need to see to know that even in the middle of a war, things are going to get better. This gives you a kind of joy \u2014 only that work continues even as people keep dying. That\u2019s why it\u2019s a very contained satisfaction,\u201d Andr\u00e9s said.<\/p>\n<p>WCK also pays local partners to provide meals and delivers 25-pound food bags for people who can cook at home. They operate in more than 90 Ukrainian cities and towns, as well as in Poland, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Spain.\u00a0They deliver 300,000 meals a day and have so far transported 6.1 million pounds of food.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ukraine3.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s\" class=\"wp-image-21957628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ukraine3.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ukraine3.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/Ukraine3.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Andr\u00e9s launched WCK in 2010 to help people survive natural disasters. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">World Central Kitchen\/WCK.org<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>President Biden toured WCK\u2019s operation in Poland, where celebrities like Liev Schreiber and chef Marc Murphy have volunteered. <\/p>\n<p>Andr\u00e9s was at the South Beach Wine &amp; Food Festival in Miami when Russia launched its invasion on Feb. 25. He left before speaking at a friend\u2019s dinner. Within hours of the invasion, WCK was on the ground in Ukraine. WCK is based on donations and has no government contracts.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n    <\/aside>\n<p>Last week, Andr\u00e9s called from Chernihiv, near Belarus on the road to Kyiv, where he took the first train in following a 39-day siege, during which the town was without heat, gas, electricity or water. Trains and bridges were destroyed along with thousands of homes. Around 100 people a day were dying at the peak of the siege. Bodies are still surfacing.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe people were so happy to see that train, and people rebuilt the bridge in four days,\u201d Andr\u00e9s said from an Italian restaurant that is now serving 10,000 to 20,000 meals a day. It was after the 8 p.m. curfew and Andr\u00e9s was hunkering down for the night, armed with a sleeping bag, and his phone.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThese guys are a great story. There were no trains or bridges [during the blockade] but they cooked non stop, even hunting deer and cooking it with potatoes. People were still crossing the river by boat to get food,\u201d Andr\u00e9s said, adding that Chernihiv \u201clooks like a bad movie. Every home has been destroyed or damaged.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ChefsForUkraine_Poland2.jpeg?w=1024\" alt=\"Jos\u00e9 Andr\u00e9s\" class=\"wp-image-21957644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ChefsForUkraine_Poland2.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ChefsForUkraine_Poland2.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/04\/ChefsForUkraine_Poland2.jpeg?quality=75&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>WCK operates in more than 90 Ukrainian cities and towns, as well as in Poland, Moldova, Romania, Slovakia, Hungary and Spain.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">World Central Kitchen\/WCK.org<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thankfully, food scarcity is not an issue. But transportation is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEverybody has to be very creative. It\u2019s not like you pick up the phone and order what you need like I do for my restaurants. And most supermarkets are still closed. Imagine the ports are totally closed and shelling has been going on for 50 days. Everything is coming mainly from Poland or Romania or even more complicated routes,\u201d Andr\u00e9s said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>WCK\u2019s CEO, Nate Mook, who was in Kharkiv on Saturday when the Russian missile hit, said that despite the danger, Ukrainians \u2014 and WCK \u2014 are still fighting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey were shaken up, of course. It\u2019s a horrific, shocking event. But they want to get back to work. It epitomizes the resilience and spirit of the Ukrainian people. They are looking forward to their victory. 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