This is just over one hour. [applause] welcome. What a great day. Good morning. I am very best albright i am marybeth albright the foot anchor at the Washington Post. I am being joined with the food World Biggest names, jose andres and alice waters. We will be taking questions for alice and jose on twitter. Please use the food for thought. Alice waters is the author of this new memoir called coming to my senses. I think the book is mesmerizing because of the subtitles, the making of a counterculture took. Counterculture cook. Today we will talk about food as a tool for change. And we will talk about her 46yearold restaurant in berkeley which have been at the forefront of the organic food movement. She is a titan of the industry. And another titan is here, a chef that continues the tradition of using food as a tool for change, jose andres. He returned yesterday from puerto rico. [applause] where his nonprofit was on the ground for one month serving an island that is still 75 without power since hurricane maria. It all started with the tweet on doesmber 24 and read, anyone in d. C. Have a Satellite Phone i can borrow . Kind of urgent. He was on the plane to puerto rico. In the months he was there, he 2livered as of yesterday million meals. [applause] that is more than the red cross and that is to be most remote areas of puerto rico. To people without food and water. Have criticized the federal governments response. Jose, i will start with a question for you. On october 1, you sent a series of tweets saying what you would do if you were donald trump. If i were donald trump, i would stop attacking the media. I would not attack a leader who is looking out for people. I would be in puerto rico to lead more than two days after the disaster. Now were at Washington Post live and we are talking about the making of counterculture c ooks and the use of food as a tool for change. We know the president is a fan of social media, he might be watching. [laughter] so there is a camera right over here. I am wondering [laughter] i think that is a call to arms. The international symbol. I am wondering if you can look at the camera and say whatever is in your heart to the president of the united states. Do not think we have to say anything to one person. I think we have to have all of us talking between us. The constitution of america, which i love, does not say i a person. It says we, the people. [applause] know is that my faith in humanity has multiplied by 10. Watching people who have nothing, who have no hope, no toer, no electricity, just see the happiness in their faces, how they came together to be all for one and one for all. It is making the best of what they had. Part of the reason i am in becauseico is precisely ,he person i am here for today people like her and a few other. If people like me go to things peopleis, it is because like her, a woman like her, they can do what nobody thought was possible. She did not do it i plane, by talking, she did it by action. In puerto rico, the only thing we did was begin cooking. We did not plan, we did not meet, we began cooking and delivered one meal at a time. What alice began doing, she began cooking. These are measured by actions and can change the world. By talking, you learn english. [laughter] alicehink i think of,use she planted the seed lets make things happen. She deserves any round of applause because she made people like me and hundreds of thousands of others to rely behind her and the simplicity of changing the world one plate at a time. For that, alice, we love you forever. [applause] thelice, coming of age in counterculture in 1960s berkeley, you writing your book that the east coast of the time at the time isos morality and love of children. And then you begin to feel betrayed. 2017. Ve heard the news in do you feel it is time for a counterculture revival and do you see that happening three food . Absolutely. I see it happening. I think i have always been part of the counterculture because i really did not believe what the government was telling us. Mom, or what at was happening with civil rights or what was vietnam happening with civil rights. I was inspired by the Free Speech Movement in berkeley. I arrived there in 1964. A man stood up on top of his car in his suit and tie and talked about how important it is when something is immoral, you need to demonstrate against it. Constant protest. Peaceful andas so joined us together. Because weerful gathered together and i was brave enough and i was not brave enough to fit in and be arrested, i am sad to say. Arrested . Were not afraid. O, i was i was not arrested. But i heard what was being said, that if we gathered together and believed we could change the world. I have never lost that. Ofthere are many other types bravery, not just being arrested. There is a lot of bravery in your book and it is dedicated to mario because of the work he did in the Free Speech Movement. Jose, for those of us who were not able to follow your twitter feed while you were in puerto rico, there is a photo that i this is emblematic of issue of the counterculture. Can you tell us a little bit about this photo and talk about what things were like on the ground for people in rural areas . It might be hard to speak about this. A Community West of san juan, by the water. This is a caribbean, African American community. If they are forgotten when things go well, imagine now. I cannot remember their names, i am like dori. Dory. [laughter] every time we go, we have 10 foot trucks. Food trucks. They were getting places other trucks couldnt go. People were always there. They would never eat until the last person on the line got food. We had many kids. We have this girl making sandwiches for two weeks in a row, eight hours a day nonstop. Them showed me that the world is going to be great. Well may need to make sure we are empowering them to be everything we want them to be. Especially girls. Man. Ouldnt be a she had to be a woman. I mean that. [applause] deepmean that the most respect to her. I do believe we need to be atting putting more women the top of positions where they will be improving the world in years to come. Ive never seen more softspoken inders making things happen kenya and haiti, and puerto rico using the big voice, but using solutions that everyone can rally around. She never called her schoolyard project. She didnt put her face in any of his books. I feel ashamed of my first one. My face was on the cover. [laughter] she is not trying to save me, me, me and forget you. What she did was had a big belief that she was almost like the shipper behind the sheep and lambs. Goodade sure that they had places and they would move to the water and food places. She is in the back. You do not notice her, but somehow i kept getting bigger and bigger and more people kept feeling her dream that makes it our dream. That is the power of what she has done and a silent, humble way. It is never about her. For thehe idea of people, we the people. Really, she showed me and i think she has shown many of us that a true leader is one that you do not notice. Let us talk about that. She was born the project was and you write about this in the book, that you are a certified montessori teacher. [applause] that is where the edible schoolyard came from. Love of empathy, teaching, children, nature. For and the audience of people watching online may not know about the edible schoolyard project. Maybe you would like to give a little overview of and tell us what it is. Also, the influence of your mother because your mother was such a large person in your life and in activist who instilled that and you. She never was a real activist. Believes inone who what i liked to say in the big picture, democracy. She really believed that nobody should have too much money. That we should all share it. And if you made over a certain amount, you should give it all she voted for stevenson back in the 50s. She made me wear a stevenson button to school, and i was the only thirdgrader [laughter] stevenson but in and i was pushed aside. You have been written in the book. They are terrible. [laughter] when i had a daughter, i started to think about the big picture of the world, and that was 34 years ago. She is now an adult. At the time i had her, i just thought we could not be an island onto ourselves in berkeley. I thought about my teaching and how Public Education is our last democratic institution. And ichild goes to school thought that is the place to reach them. When they are very little and bring them into a really positive relationship to food and to nature. Training came backter to me. She believes in educating the senses because those are the pathways into our mind, our touch, our taste, our smell, our seeing, or listening. If our senses are closed down, were not able to connect with the world around us. I really believed that our senses have been closed down. That montessori theed about her work in slums in the slums and india. But ours have been closed down by the fast food culture that we live in. Everything is meant to be fast, cheap, and easy, and we are not touching and we are not tasting. We are gathering at the table anymore. And yet, were telling our children to wait for things. Exactly exactly. And when 85 of kids in this country do not have one meal with their family, were losing our humanity. Those two little girls who you are with them puerto rico, the idea that you should wait till everybody has food before you eat. That is an idea that comes from eating around the table and knowing how much food there is an being able to share with everybody who is there and saying please and thank you. Even though there was not thing tasty on the table [laughter] i was very unfortunate. There are irish and english. They didnt have. They were getting you ready. [laughter] we did have a Victory Garden in the backyard. , my parentsar started that in here we had corn and tomatoes. As queen of the garden for a costume contest and i had an asparagus skirt. A let us leave top. A lettuce leaf top. I had a crown of peppers. As i told people, i think i remember that i won. [laughter] and you never took the costume ever . [laughter] it is interesting because dust can we have a moment your question mark were sitting in a room full of people who, i am assuming, love food, love the food you make. I am wondering were talking about the importance of food and there has been a populist movements in this country, right . Is there a populist movement in the country coming for food . Is we worried good food being priced out about people can afford it . Thatll, i really feel there is a movement. It is kind of underground which i love that we have not really shown ourselves yet. But a lot of young people around the country are becoming farmers and they are growing a great diversity of fruits and vegetables. And they are selling them directly to restaurants. The experience i have had over the years have been to develop a network and to actually support one farm completely. Whatever they grow, whatever it costs, we are willing to pay. He feels like he can really do the work without worrying. It is the reason that i am hoping that in schools that they the support team for the people who are growing , ranching and fishing. But the schools would buy from them. Without a middleman. Peoplectly from those were doing that work for all of us for the future of this planet. So i am very confident that if we were to have schoolsupported agriculture, not only with these could be eating the food that is good for them, but it would really help to change agriculture, and it could change it overnight. And so that is kind of the master plan. Know you have one. In fact, we do not have time to go in business through your butr important question, how about haiti in puerto rico . Aw is it possible that i can of soda is cheaper than a bottle of water . Just think about it for a second. I love my rum and coke. [laughter] but is that something we need to be thinking about . We have water in the town for free from this guy, but somehow water becomes more expensive than coke itself. I do not get it. I still do not get it. We are all part of the problem, because we all keep paying for the water more expensive than coke. It is kind of these conundrums that we have to be answering. For me, i think with food, for everybody to take it seriously because they can be saying we are foodies and we like to pay more for our green peaa eas because our green peas are better. Going to Farmers Markets today, it will show you how expensive it is buying those foods. At the same time, we have to keep those farmers alike. I think we need up to places like iowa and you see half of the crops are corn and the corn is not even used to feed humanity but now becomes feel and now our usda secretary is also the energy secretary, this is fascinating. At the end of the day, the same way that september 11 happened how we thought it would never happen, do we have our september 11 but with it being with so few , that went day will have the biggest september 11 by something we dont first see one day . One day all of those crops feeding american humanity, they will not be any longer. This could happen. This is a National Security issue. When we ask for diversity of vegetables and fruits and more farmers and bigger farmers, it futureuse humanitys depends on it. Not because we want to have 120 vegetables to put in our risotto so we can cost charge you 100 a plate. It is deeper than that. It is about this diversity. This huge amount of diversity we are so likely to have. To forever going keep succeeding. That is why this is so important. Going back to something you are saying about [laughter] [applause] translator on the number one number. You can understand my english more than this time. [laughter] that happens. I think it was so interesting what you are saying about the water versus the coat. There was a controversy over what fema was bringing to the island of puerto rico versus what you are serving. You were serving fresh fruits and saying we would never serve chips and what fema was bringing in were cheeses, chocolate pudding, vienna sausages. The mayor of san juan was calling them out for it. I think there is an interesting comparison between those two things. Luckily, your signed a 10 Million Contract with fema as i understand to serve good meals, twomeals for the next weeks. Correct me if i am wrong. I do not even know what i find with fema. [laughter] i can imagine you have had a busy month. We were many millions in the red. 300,000 ording 400,000. The only thing we did was feed people. When they say fema has a contract, it almost looks very wrong. I will let even said and i said, what . [laughter] i am there on my own time and i pay for my own cigars in my own room. The water issue, which is has plenty oft sweetwater places across the island. Many of them were working. Because those two or three people in charge of that left fema, the issue is not lack of water, the issue was lack of communication. Fake news 101. When 70 goes and says all the water in the world is infected and you dont have the epa their testing every water source on the islands, you will puerto rico needed one million gallons a day. They have the water on the island. The only thing they had to be doing was making sure they were functioning in the water places, which is not hard to do. Aching to the water was tested in making sure the leaders were communicating on time to the people that the water was ok to be drinkable by all. This was not information that has been delivered. No value went into this. We had to bring in one million gallons a day from outside. The island was going thirsty. Ago, i saw a woman who had not had a decent glass of water in 48 hours. Those problems are man created. Luckily for us, we have water that is more than water. Is the water these problems was happening in other parts of the world is somehow sometimes created by nature. But this crisis is created by humanity. We have to make sure humans are at the service of taking care of humans and not becoming the problem instead of bringing the true solution one glass of water at a time in this case. This has turned into an interesting conversation. [laughter] [applause] you can go ahead and speak if you like. I wanted to tell you a small water story. I was at a university the university of indiana, bloomington. They wanted to put in water fountains on the campus so that everybody could have water for free, but it seems like one it seems like one of the big corporations, dare i name it, nestle, had given funds to the university. And along with that came a contract for bottled water. They would not let the university put in water fountains because it would cut into their bottled water business. So this is what is happening. I go many places and visit many enlightened universities around the country, but these have really locked in their contracts and sweetens it with a donation for a building or an endowment or something. Thes very difficult for university to take the rest. I am just waiting for 1 i hope the university of california can do this, because they have a food and Agriculture Initiative that they want to achieve by 2025. But they are going to have to go , andainst that bigmoney it always comes down to that. I do not know if you have experienced that, but these countries buy the wells and water rights to the areas. I am not surprised they havent bought them for all of puerto rico. And then they basically selling back to us. One of the interesting things, when we were having our discussion last week and advanced of our Washington Post live discussion and we were talking about puerto rico, you had mentioned the wildfires in Northern California and you are believing that there might be relationships that you want to talk about there and how you had been affected by the wildfires. This is for you. It is incredibly emotional, because the chefs from the restaurant lost their house and winery, birds completely to the ground. If you like an emergency and everyone is doing what he or she can do and it is beautiful to see that, to feel that. That restaurants are really ready to go up to napa to see come together. It is something very, very shocking to all of us. [applause] will we can talk about the restaurant now that we talking about it and how it was born out of the counterculture. 46 years ago, which is pretty extraordinary for a restaurant like this that has really started a movement and has stayed at the top of its game and stayed i hate this word and the restaurant world for 46 yearsevant in a building he bought eventually for 26,000 in berkeley, which you cannot buy a parking space in berkeley for 20,000 these days. I wish i had bought a lot more real estate. Yeah, no kidding. [laughter] it was a restaurant born out of the counterculture because it was born off of you feeding a bunch of people at your house were livinng communally. I would love to hear more about the start of that restaurant and you feeding the people that you are writing the newspaper column alicesch is restaurant. You and your crystal ball. Before you had a restaurant you are writing about the restaurant you were writing about the restaurant. Talk to us about that. It was an abusive or call the San Francisco express times. Let the people were writing for. Just came over my friend david was a. Alligrapher and also a printer theyre are all these people writing about music and art. They all thought that maybe they should have something about food , and david said he would be happy to have that. We ended up calling that alices restaurant, after the song. Money onnding all my feeding these folks, these friends, and i thought, well, maybe i can just open a restaurant and they could pay. [laughter] well, the only problem was is i cannot see them anymore because i was so busy in the kitchen. It just didnt work out, but i hired a lot of them to work with me in the restaurant. We were all literary guests. How many of you have been literary guests. How many of you have been here . Shame on the rest. Ice storm of the first time i went. So 18 andr is 18 now, a half years ago. My life had me there in San Francisco my wife had me there in San Francisco because she was pregnant with my daughter. She was like, i need food. I need good food. I bought my way in and at the end, we ate at this amazing place. Have you call it . In the cafe. Child and my pregnant wife i am not going to lie to you, and especially european chefs. More pretentious than the french. Ofny was a super big fan this year, i was always a her and wean of loved her. But when i went there, i cannot believe what i saw in front of me. He ate an amazing menu of these amazing pizzas coming from the wood stone oven and many amazing dishes. The moment i realized the power of this woman we had, for and clementines. And they put a clementine that i had to peel myself. A tangerine. A tangerine. When i smelled that tangerine, it was a revelation. We have, from where i come from in spain, very good stuff. Thats unbelievable. One was unbelievable. To this day, we keep talking about it. I keep going back to some of those farms were i can get some for the restaurants for my home. Atet day, i never ate a d like the one i had. It was a date i cannot describe. You a date that cost a lot of money. It asks you about the meaning of cooking. What she did was exactly that. It is an amazing way to be bringing together people and. Armers it becomes the most simplest again complicated thing at the same time. Now, every time i have a tangerine, a key shoot, this is saw theent that i a power of this movement that she did by giving importance to the things everyone was overlooking. Amazing things partnering with amazing farmer and making sure we were feeding the people. I remember when she came to my she will come in and i remember thinking, she is coming. I went to the kitchen and i was like, where are those asparagus from . She goes, chile. And i am like, chile . [laughter] ok. I thought they were from marilyns like you said. Yland november mar like you said. It is november. I created fake news, people. [applause] that i didnt believe it. We didnt lie to her, but that was the conversation. You cannot fool alice waters. We rely, she is coming into the restaurant. I am like, you know the champagne you sell in your restaurant comes from france . It is not local. I just fired back at her from the beginning. [laughter] theyreazing thing, talking about the Amazing Things this woman has had. Even if we are never perfect, at least you tried to reach for that perfection and find the right balance. What she did more than anybody was she may people like me think. Every time we serve a plate of food, we think. She was not only feeding our bodies but feeding our souls and our need to ask the right y to get thed tried tt best possible answers. But having that information, we will be feeding america and this planet in a better way. That is the biggest power and ages. Ggest thing for the [applause] i think youre doing a mike trout. And that is it. A mic drop. And that is it. And i are out. It is true. One of the great things i looked in this book is alice, you mentioned you were counterculture area you can never be a hippie because you cannot get down with their idea of food. Their idea of food was too uncivilized. Vegetables in a pot with rice and i could not eat with them. Too much of a european centralist ever be a hippie. Your love of food would not allow you to be a hippie. You would walk into this is one of the best descriptions i ever read. You would walk in your natural food [laughter] [indiscernible] [laughter] internetuld watclk Natural Fruit restaurants and it was the like vitamin powder and incense. You would be like, i got to get the hell out of here. This is hysterically funny. To know that alice waters, who is like the pinnacle of food, has a sense of humor about food is such a relief for people, i think. That is one of the reasons i love reading your book. Thank you. Im very sensitive about aroma. That is another reason you cannot be a hippie. I love it when you walk into restaurants and you can smell a fire burning. When a restaurant does not smell good, you just sit or worry about the kitchen. That is how we welcome people into the space. We try to reach them subconsciously. Sometimes i have to burn rosemary to make it happen, but it really predisposes people to food that we are serving. When my daughter would come home from school, i always kind of wanted to make the Chicken Stock sort of happening then so that she would feel the warmth of the house, that she would want to come into the kitchen and be curious. And it worked like a charm. To get her up in the morning i roasted peppers up on the stove and she would run downstairs and say, and you put this in my lunch, would you put this in my lunch, and i always did. That is the way we have to reach children. We used all of those techniques, if you will. Preparing of the classroom. That. Lks a lot about she put flowers on the table. Thing. Not to do o a they just know. Some he really cares about me. I think our children need to feel this. They are not a home anymore learning about the tables. Their parents are both working and everybody is busy. They are grabbing food where they can. To make a place for them. That is part of what we are trying to do in the school. Were making school lunch part so we can get we ca time to focus to a lunch together. We have been experimenting. We made a placemat. The studyat is about of the geography of the arabian peninsula, because that is what the kids are talking about in their classroom. Were using the academic minutes from that and our geography class. It shows on there. What we are serving them is this. We are serving them at tabouli salad, accurate soup with a little hot red pepper in it a carrot soup with a little hot red pepper in it. Theyre eating the food of that place. In india. Be and maybe you are serving them or the spiceup yogurt. Teacha way that we can and digest that lesson and a whole different way using all of our senses during this is what im hoping might happen in new know, thebecause, you bellagio they they were going to see all the things in new york city for free. All of them. [applause] and he wants to see them nutritionally good food. He wants to feed them traditionally good food. Know they will be in support for the farmers in and around new york city. I am just hoping that we can have a conversation about school lunch being really civilized and that way and part of the academic sessions. I think that brings us i think that princess to a great question we have on Washington Post live on twitter. Heavenly influence those who want to make Health Sustainable choices that may not have the resources to do so . Affordability are access. If applicants might be a great way to do that. Certainly, school, i think is the best way. The kids bring them home to their families. I always use the example of hosea. I will buy an expensive chicken, but i know has a make three meals from that chicken. For a family of four. Knows how to make six. This is about cooking. This is about learning how to cook affordably. Food, ofow your own course that is the very best way to grow it. During world war ii, we grew on the front wants to the post office. Back when the crisis again a few years ago, they were coming and saying can you cook a valentines menu . Body . , it d. C. My i am not that do you see my body . I am not that type of chefs. I said it was a little more respect. To me, i would say let me do things that are meaningful. You have this crisis. Let us see how we can maximize the chicken and not make one meal, but six. I saw my mother doing it. Thisd, let me use information. Im talking about the schools, if we should be feeding children for free or not. People will say, oh, you are socialist and it is all the same thing. In new york, the School System and ited all children benefits the local economy in ways we dont see. Things will be cheaper when things really happen by the volume you can be achieving. The question here is very simple. Invest as ao community, as a country and the health of our children . Arent we want to throw money at the problem and fixing or do we want to throw money at the problem in fixing them when their 60 w when they are 60 years old and fixing them . I think we should invest more money into the solution. Were just during money at the problem. Throw money at fighting diabetes, fighting cancers may be related to the food they were younger. This is a very simple thing. Help . We want to creators of solutions are just trying to throw money at the problem we will never, ever be able to fix . I am the type of guy who believes in investing into solutions. Much more fascinating to have the economy is bottomup the community how we love, as we want it. Healthy, young communities. Helping the economy, the moving forward, and walking toward that horizon. A country that is healthier, smart. We keep investing in what is important. The health and wellbeing of every single american. If youre with me, that is what you should be going for. That is what this woman has been doing. [applause] that is great why you invited him. We only have a few minutes remaining. In those few minutes remaining, i would like to talk about where it is now and how it got there. Book abouts in her the beginnings of shake and sayt started from her visit to france. It says, when i got back from france i wanted to eat like the french. The only way to get the slavers again was to make the dishes myself. No restaurants in berkeley and San Francisco were cooking that way if they were, i couldnt afford them. I had a certain taste in mind, and i really wanted to get the food there. It all went back to france. I had been awakened to take there, and i wanted everybody to be awakened the way i have been. I was convinced i could win people over if i cut them the right food, if i got them to taste something they had never had before. Tasteice, what do people with this that they never have before . Alice we started with just one menu downstairs. Actually, we still just have one menu downstairs. We have the cafe upstairs and then all of card menu so that carte menu a la so their friends can come with their children and eat affordably. Downstairs, we had the full menu. I cannot believe we change it every single night. Yes, maybe we have done this stuff thousands of times, but y to come upe tr with different kinds of things to serve with it. Choreographedis by us to bring people to taste t havent tasted before. It is much collaboration without happens. Is almost like a job, when you have gro a group of people in the kitchen who is talented and different ways. We come together and try to make something greater than the sum of the parts. It has been a kind of wordofmouth that has happened over the years. Right the recipes down we write the recipes down. Maybe a little bit and pastries because we have to be a little more precise. We try to come with it will what we found in the market that they. There are always new things that are surprising, and it is the way we work. In that way it is more like a dinner party. Alice it is. It is just like that. That helps to reinforce that feeling that you are coming into somebodys home to have a meal. That french kind of way of service is very, very important to me. The salad is kind of always there. Dish,not after the main but there is a little on every play. Plate. I think it sort of refreshes the pallet. It is very, very important to me. What you want people to take that and never tasted before . Jose the brains of the question, i will say that the alicehing i am touched by is i never understood why she keeps saying the french way. The spanish when . Way . [laughter] you are in San Francisco. My ancestor helped build that. Eric is halfway spanish. Ok. Fake news. You could bupaella. We do cook paella. Jk you know what jose we want people to start thinking when you start to eat. I you put your nose and the Farmers Market in those amazing peaches coming from the farms and small this peaches. I want you to get that apple and feel it with your hands, how hard it is and then how juicy and how amazing it is. Oflways say that the piece steak is the most boring thing in mankind. The we keep going for the steak. Five seconds of pleasure that is the closest next 15 sex, the seconds, you look like a lion. You feel so empowered because you are like a lion. And then sometimes you look more like a butterfly. I produce honey now. Behind at my house and my daughters help a couple of times a year. I want you to put your finger in the honey and for one second close your eyes and pretend you are the butterfly. That is what i want you to do. To understand that you do not need to look for the most sophisticated niche. Even chefs like us sometimes look for those dishes. Sometimes, the simplicity for of really listening to the ingredients. They are listening there telling a story but sometimes the noise not allow it. They are describing the flavor. To do that, you have to listen. If you listen, it will come back to you in ways. That is what alice has been telling us all along. We are listening every day more and more to 13. Listen because there is a story behind every one of those ingredients, those smells, those labors. With the stories we learn from them, thanks to the guidance of people like alice, yes, we can have an opportunity to improve the world we live in one flavor at a time by only listening to them. [applause] just going to say it is why i call it a delicious revolution. This is not hard to do. This is something that once you get connected, you are always there. Youre going there. These kids get connected so quickly. Their longing for nature they are longing for nature. They are longing for the experience just as jose described it beautifully. What . In. Che a i have to say, you are not the actual chef, which surprises some people. In yourso interesting book as he said when you were a kid he played baseball and you left being the picture because youre always in the game and had control over the game. And so, i think that really resonated with me because that seems like your role. You are always in the game and you always have to know what is going on in the game. Girl, as aoung pitcher, that rolleston out in stood out that role in my mind, right . Take a picture out of the game. Pitcher out of the game. How are they watching the world series and puerto rico . Because in puerto rico . The same thing i answered when fema said i was getting paid. Say what . Open isaccount account and order food in the 73rd. Ordered food and they sent me food. Were people in the town square watching . Yes. The mayor. We have been sending him food forever. The biggest problems of the world have very simple solutions. We only have certain leaders that they seem to believe that they are bigger leaders by making us believe that the problem is so big that they can only fix them. I dont need leaders like that. We only People Like Us to make a happen. [applause] truth, and ihe endorse this message. [laughter] the camera is still going if you want to say something. Jose i am very smart. [laughter] jose i left school when i was 14. I never went to university, but i am smart too. [applause] i think we will even at that. Jose i am talking to everybody. I understand. There just happens to be a camera in the room. Coming to my senses is a phenomenal book. It is honest and funny and authentic. There are fantastic stories in this. Im going to tell you if you want to know how alice waters mistakenly stumbled onto the set of the godfather, if you want to know how she was on a plane that Louis Armstrong and his band was writing on and they just started riding on and they just started playing, if you want to know how she punched a drummer in the face for mistreating her sister, and how she got kicked out of her story for drinking too much, these books will be on sale outside and alice will be sticking around to sign them for a little while. They are up for purchase right out in the hallway. You can watch highlights from todays events. I dont even the whole thing is a highlight, right . Jose and do not a reservation at her restaurant because you will not be able. You can find out more life programs at washingtonpos tlive. Com. Thank you all very much for coming. 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