Been and theres even more many. Were going until 8 00 tonight. So thank you for being here, i hope youre having a wonderful day. And for those of you following us online and streaming online, im carla hayden, the librarian of congress, and this is one of my favorite [applause] as you can imagine, times. And our next author is not only a local celebrity, he is also an international one. Chef jose andres is as well known for the many extraordinary restaurants he runs as he is for his humanitarian efforts. In fact, he will be leaving directly after this program to go help others. [applause] so hes backstage signing books right now because if he doesnt catch the plane, he wont be able to get there. You probably know that following the 2010 earthquake in haiti chef andres formed the World Kitchen to feed the distressed island nation, and after maria struck puerto rico in 2017, he once again answered the call for relief efforts by providing millions of meals with his team of chefs and volunteers. [applause] his efforts and experiences are recounted in his book, we fed an island the true story of rebuilding puerto rico one meal at a time. Jose andres and his team have fed people all over the world. Hes been named one of time magazines 100 most influential people and awarded outstanding chef and humanitarian of the year by the james beard foundation. Jose andres came to america in 199 1 when he landed in new york city, and hes since gone on to cook in some of the worlds finest restaurants, and now he has more than 30 a awardwinning eateries to his credit. And washington, d. C. Is very fortunate that he calls this area his home. I think we should applaud for that one. [applause] his restaurants range from food trucks to a two michelin star mini Bar Restaurant oh, im just getting hungry reading this. [laughter] featuring a tasty menu of innovative preparations that push the limits of what is possible with food. And he will be discussing his new cookbook, vegetables unleashed, design to transform how we think about and eat vegetables including brussel sprouts. [laughter] he will be in conversation by the queen of talk radio, diane reameses. [applause] she is a native washingtonian who began her radio career as a volunteer for wamu in 1973. [cheers and applause] it was later renamed the diane rehm show which attracted an audience of more than 2. 8 million listeners, and i have to tell you, i was one of them. The final broadcast of the show was in december 2016, and her show lives as a podcast, hour, called on however, called on my mind. So please welcome chef jose ann a grace, we can all say jose andres, we can all say it together and diane rehm. [applause] what a welcome for you. Well, deservedly so, i think. [laughter] i think, let me finish. They gave you even a better one because you know one thing im very excited to be here besides being with you all, is to be next to this awe amazing person, this amazing woman who so many years [inaudible] understand whats going on in the world. Can we give another big round of applause to diane rehm . [applause] thank you, thank you. Youve probably already or heard that jose is not going to additionally sign books because he is taking off immediately after this is over to fly to florida, where else . Really. [applause] so, jose, here we are nearly two years after the hurricane in puerto rico. You went there, you did as much as you could. They are still recovering. What do you think of that . Well, listen, when a hurricane like maria happens, you need to understand the destruction is going to be so great that its going to take a long time to recover. If we remember katrina, and this happened already so many years ago, i think the yesterday was the unfortunate anniversary. Were talking already, what, ten years . Still they are recovering in many parts of new orleans. And this is only telling me one thing, that id had no doubt that america is the most amazing country. My wife and i, we could join as immigrants when we came over 25 yearses ago. Because i learned that when america comes together and they put aside silly fights and parties and Political Parties and republicans versus democrats and we only bring the best heart of every single american people, we can recover out of anything. But we need to leave the policies out of it. [applause] and thats it. I want to leave the politics out of it. Certain things cannot happen. I cannot have my president use all this fingerpointing to puerto rico when a hurricane is about to hit the island. Thats not the moment to do it. [applause] and thats what we have leaders for, to bring all of us together, even people that see different than that. People that dont see about the issues in the same way as us, but in the end genuinely we all agree more on thing than we disagree. That we, the people, is stronger than anybody. We cannot break that bond. So thats what i believe about puerto rico and reconstruction. I know the answer isnt straight up and i made it my own answer [laughter] i dont need to say anything. You know were in washington [laughter] and politicians never answer anything after they are asked oh, but you do. And even cooks like me, we just learn the bad way, and i apologize for it. Now, the one thing you did not say, when you got here to the United States, how much money did you have in your pocket . I arrived two times to the United States. Okay, how about the first time . The first time i was in the spanish navy, and i came sailing in a tall ship. And i was very lucky to serve in the spanish navy, and we went around the world. And i came to pensacola, and i still i remember the day i arrived to new york with ellis island and the statue of liberty. And the day i got, you know, i didnt want need much money because i was young and i had food on the ship. But the second time probably is the one that counts when i came to stay. In case theres an immigration officer in the room, i came legally. [laughter] even i had few hiccups later on. And then i had, yeah, i had 60. But, you know or, i came more or less with the promise of a job, with the promise of a bed, and that that made my life very easy. Thats why as an immigrant sometimes i do believe in the moment we are living. I want to send a clear message to everybody, immigration is not a problem for america to solve, its an opportunity for america to seize. [cheers and applause] we need to be asking our congress to pass immigration reform. [applause] we had president bush tried to do it. We had republicans tried to do it, democrats tried to do it. But in the end, some forces dont want that to happen. Why . Thats what we need to be asking ourselves. So, yeah, thats my answer about how much money i got [laughter] i told you, im not going to need to say very much here this morning. [laughter] so when Hurricane Maria erupted two years ago, you chose to go directly down this as you are going to florida today. Tell me why you felt you had to go do that. Well, we saw the hurricane was going to be total destruction, and i felt the urge to go. Its not the first time i did it. Ive been doing this for many years before with. What happened in puerto rico was something like, you know, everybody was aware. When i go to hurricanes, i dont do press releases. I just ask my wife for help. We pull together some clothes, thats it. And i show up and begin feeding people. The for me, the inspiration probably was moving into washington, d. C. On [inaudible] and i guarantee almost none of you have done that. One of the most important buildings that you should visit in this city is on 7th and e. Yes. The claire a rah barton clara barton [inaudible] that woman was able to single handeddedly take care of many of the wounded of the civil war, and the or American Red Cross was created. When i moved to the city, that building was across there from my apartment. My mom and dad were nurses. A person like clara barton was able to do so much good for the american soldiers of both sides. Why cooks like me, we cannot do exactly to put our expertise at the service of others. So really the first time was in haiti. And then we began going to hurricanes all sure, sure. Puerto rico, when i landed i tell my wife, i landed on a monday three days after maria hit the island and probably the second plane that landed in san juan. And i told my wife ill be back by the weekend because we had some friends visiting from spain. I still remember calling her thursday, three days later, telling her im not coming this weekend and, actually, i dont know when im coming back because the problems, the destruction was bigger than what you even were watching at home. We had 3. 7 million puerto ricanamericans in an island without cell signal, without electricity, without water because all the Water Systems broke down. And on paper, without food. So what a cook can do is gather the food, gather the cooks, find the kitchens and start feeding as many people so what did you cook . What were you relying on . [laughter] so the first, the first day we landed, as we landed i said whats up not knowing if any of my friends on the island were going to be able to receive it. And when these emergencies happen, you have to be very clear. You need to give a very simple message that everybody understands and so everybody or kind of stick to plan. And the whats app message was i handed, ill be at 3 00 on this location. And when i arrived to that location, before that i had time to be going around to see what was the damage, to see what companies were, to come to companies that they knew had food to Start Talking with them directly. When i arrived with some food in my car, all of the friends that i whats app, they were there waiting, and we began cooking. And that first day we did over 1500 meals only. We went from 1,000 meals the first day and 20 friends and one restaurant, we went from thousand meals a day to 150,000 meals a day. We went from 20 friends to 25,000 volunteers. We went from one kitchen to 23 kitchens all across the island. At the end we fed probably over four Million People. [applause] unbelievable. Unbelievable. [applause] well, even that was not your first hurricane. You went down to haiti before you got to puerto rico. Yeah. If you buy the book and i dont mind to tell you that you should buy it because [laughter] of course. Because 100 of the earnings after a paying the writer and other things, 100 go to worlds hunger kitchen. And itd be a way for you to [applause] in the book its a chapter that we compare american aid to haiti after the earthquake and our own aid to our own land. I mean, this chapter we compare number of people that were sent, number of helicopters, number of military personnel, number of meals, all the assets that were available to us. And if you take a look, you will see that the response that we gave to haiti was so much more quicker, so much faster than the response we gave to puerto rico. And im very proud as an american that america did so well in haiti helping the great people of haiti and the people of portauprince. But as an american equally, i was so sad to see that the aid we gave to puerto rico, american territory, was not equal to the one we gave to haiti. So the message here is the men and women of fema are amazing people. The men and women of our National Guard are amazing. The men and women of the many ngos that help are astonishing. Everybody should be clap and honor, because theyre really good people. [applause] but fundamentally are, fundamentally the way fema has been structured is not the best way to be helping america sometimes anymore. Why not . What is it that they dont do that you are able to do . Because its a super Big Corporation that is more handling contracts. And when youre hungry, if you have americans hungry, you cannot start initiating a contract with anybody. When we go to california and the firemen are hungry, on paper its a contract between the firefighters and a Catering Company. But you know what happens with the Catering Company . Nobodys showing up to work because theyre trying to save their homes and save their lives. So you need to think out of the box. We cannot be contracted. We are an ngo. We go and we help when nobody is there to help. So i do believe we need, hopefully, the next democrat or Republican Administration because i dont think this one is up to the task they should look, they should no, but i mean it in a nice way in the sense of [laughter] in a nice way. [applause] fema is there to support americans, and most of the time they do a great job but sometimes they dont. And they are not selfcritical of themselves. If you hear of what happened in puerto rico, i heard the president gave himself and fema a ten. You know what . I give myself only a five. Why . Because we fed four million, we did four million meals, but i wish we did forty million because thats what was needed. So you cannot give yourself a high score and not be critical, because if you are not critical, means that nothing will ever change. And when something happens in florida, south carolina, virginia, maryland, new york, another hurricane hits or an earthquake, if the response is not there, all of you will suffer. And americans deserve that the government is there for them in moment of disrepair. Thats why we need to look at how fema is organized [applause] break fema into two and start making fema do a better job in the way they help americans. So id like to talk about what it was you fed them [laughter] yeah. Its manager that ive read its something that ive read, and i dont know whats in it. So funny, because i think you asked me that before, and i dont understand how i cannot answer to a question by the great diane rehm. But my brain is so full of things that sometimes i forget. So what we fed the first day is something called sancocho. If theres Puerto Ricans in the room, im not going to describe because they will criticize me, you have no clue [laughter] its like when i do paella in spain, they create seize me and say criticize me. Because in an emergency you try to do what you can with what you have. But its this amazing stew of pork and yucca and corn and many other root vegetables, very hearty. And because we had all of those things, we began making these big pots. And i remember the first delivery we did was to a hospital that they got a phone call because was the niece of the director of the hospital that knew i was in san juan, and im like, really, theyre hungry . We began cooking them pots and bringing them to the hospital because nurses and doctors were operating without lights. Sometimes i saw them with an iphone, they didnt even have generators that were working because they didnt have gas. So that was the first thing. But very quickly are, what happened . The moment people knew we were cooking, the phone calls began getting to us, messaging, people would show up. And before we knew, we went from 1,000 meals a day to over 35,000 meals a day in four days. Thats when i saw that the problem was bigger. And so we made [speaking spanish] which is mashed potatoes with a ground meat. We did [speaking spanish] food for 40 people and they can go into these cameras that allow us every is 240, 2503 meals, and thats the way we transport the food so its healthy and hot and everything. We began making [speaking spanish] chicken and rice which is also a staple in puerto rico. So all the dishes we make, obviously, are based on the ingredients we have at our disposal. But then we make sure that the locals have what they like. Nothing gives more hope and more joy to people than to give them something, a plate of food that sends one message very clearly, we care, be patient, things will get better. And when especially the food is to their liking, then you are bringing joy to lives in a moment that they have only chaos. Thats why we worked so hard in bringing up good, humbleflavored food. [applause] this idea alone weve been in indonesia. We responded to the first earthquake, first tsunami and second tsunami. We did close to 900,000 meals. The military began helping us because they saw what he doing. I went myself in mozambique, we had three kitchens in a beautiful up to in the north of the country. Last month i was in venezuela, were in colombia, we are on the border in el paso. Weve been over nine, ten months in tijuana. So everywhere we go can we dont impose what we like to eat. We listen to the locals to what they want to eat. And what was the government offering in the way of food in puerto rico . [laughter] thats a longer conversation. [laughter] im guessing theres a lot of military here, and im amazed what i have many men and women friends in the military, and when they go to battle combat zones, they have what they call the mres, that meals ready to eat. But if you go and search mre, its many different names that they use the m, the r and the e, and theres too many kids in the audience for me to be telling you. [laughter] but mres are brilliant. You can buy an mre, you can put it in the middle of the highway. You come back 50 years later [laughter] and the mre is still perfect. No, no. We should clap to our intellect. Weve been able as humans to create something when were looking for alien life on jupiter, im like, what the fuck . [laughter] we have alien lives here, weve made it. I mean, you know, a memory is like a burger from a fast food chain that im not going to name. You put it in the middle of the road, you come back 50 years later, its still this. Yes, i eat it too, but its for your to understand. So thats the way we do it. And let me tell you what is the problem with it. Four mres are very bulky. Full of calories. It is great. But four mres occupy the space of 40 meals. So lets follow this right now. If youre trying to feed an island, lets say a Million People, do you know the amount of space you need only to provide one mre a day for a Million People . You need hundreds, if not thousands of helicopters. You need ships by the hundreds. You need planes by the hundreds. The space occupied is so big. Its okay for one or two days. Its not something sustainable. Another thing happens. When we deliver foods, we deliver them in perp and by foot. That in person and by foot. We are not cooks, we are solution centers. Distribution centers. But what happens . We show up every day. What happens with mres . They go and drop them ask and and they leave. When you show up every day, you begin gathering information, you given gathering knowhow, grow start knowing what people need. All of a sudden, diane, we know that some people have Health Issues with some foods or religious issues with some foods. We start accommodating to their needs. Somebody tell us, jose, my grandfather is going to die because he doesnt have a generator, so his breathing machine not working. We are able to bring them the generator. We need this medicine for this person that is sick. We bring that med city. All of a sudden, what we do is more than feeding. What were doing is having real, direct contact with neighborhoods and people that are cut off from the response, and we make them feel that that we care for them, and we connect them and bring them back to reality, and we try to make sure that they have everything that they need. Thats why its so important, its beyond hot food. We show up every day, and we believe that the problem is solved and the we with move out. With mres we adopt, we go and we we drop it, we go and we forget about the people. Nobody knows anything else about that community. This is not the way to be providing the relief. We need to start profinding relief providing relief following up. So, jose, from what you have just described it sounds to me as though you have a plan to feed the world. I, this one is about one for a lot of reasons, right . Lets say washington, d. C. , we dont need to go any further away. And in a city of 600,000 people, i think we are 600,000 no, sorry, we are about to reach 700. Its a city that is more distance from congress and the senate. Lets say every one of you is congressmen and everybody of you is a senator. Obviously, you want to be that taking care of your district and your states, as you should be. But to me, its very amazing that we have this experiment of democracy happen right here in washington, d. C. So close from congress where many of the things should be happening here as a test to make sure that no veteran will be in the streets of washington without home and hungry. Thats true. [applause] how it is possible that we have veterans coming back and one day they are in the streets for whatever reasons. As a country, we cannot allow that. So, yes, i dont mind to sound like a fool or to say that, yes, i have a plan to feed the world. But to me, sometimes i need to make sure that my own city does not have this problem. Because sometimes were trying to resolve issues in the other parts of the world, and we dont even resolve the issues right here at home. Let me tell you i dont know if you are republican or democrat this will happen forever. I am spanish. You know how many walls we have built in spain over the centuries . Let me tell you. You have people that are hungry there is no wall that will defend you. If you are a mother and your children are hungry you are going to do whatever it takes to feed your children. Let me tell you what we should build. I believe america and the world i want to leave to my daughters is one where they are going to be safe. They dont need a wall to protect them but building a better wall that gives them the option to enjoy that beautiful wall, world of ours. Walls of inclusion versus walls of exclusion. Walls that are soup kitchens and universities and hospitals and employment jobs. People south of the border are doing well, they are doing okay. They dont have to do that. It is the destiny and responsibility of richer countries of the world to take care of the poor countries of the world. Like it or not, the right thing to do. [applause] lets talk about your new book. This is a book about vegetables and it is a book with fabulous recipes. Why vegetables, unleashed. What do you think they have when they go into the booth . I dont look like a chef who can write a book about vegetables . Or my belly . I have friends who have a belly like mine. I did this book for a simple reason. I love vegetables. And believe me, i know some of you are saying sure, hes going to say that because he wants to sell his book. My wife is right here. [applause] shes not here because of me, shes here because she loves you. She is very clear, she never comes to see me do anything. Why are you coming . Thank you. Many of the recipes in this book are of my wifes and the recipes of my wife were from her mother and her grandmother. Not all the recipes are spanish, they are inspired in many parts of the world including the United States but we need to take vegetables more seriously. I have a restaurant called deep steak. You like a beefsteak sandwich. The beefsteak was my way to put, lets call the money where the mouth is because sometimes we talk about lets change the world. There is space in our conference room. After you are given a sardine, everybody forgets that you have done nothing so i did this Fast Food Restaurant to prove we can have a restaurant, 99 vegetables, in the right way, helping the local farmers and that is why the book follows through. What if one day we stop with so much meat and start bringing more vegetables into our diet . [applause] do you know that today we could be talking about our farmers and Rural America, Rural America is getting emptier. Or they go on a boat, someone who promises the moon and cant deliver. We need to make sure we take care of those people, they keep producing the vegetables that we need, we keep paying them and let me tell you one thing, republican or democrat, if we dont change the farm bill, america will be getting fatter and healthier and only because our congressmen and senators from both bodies are supporting a farm bill that doesnt try to make us healthier. It is like a trojan horse. [applause] host tell them about the beefsteak sandwich. Guest i love tomatoes. Only two people love tomatoes . [laughter] guest grange tomatoes. Do you know grange tomatoes . They are like thunder. Lamar alexander brought me from his estate the grange tomatoes, the best tomatoes. Guest host what color . Guest reddish, pinkish and i got bread from my units, some sold. A big piece of the tomato, the bread toasted. If you dont like it toasted, it is fine. I will allow you anyway. Dont tell me but i am going to allow you. When you bring that sandwich avocado. Guest do they have avocado . I give them my freedom. Okay. On that particular this recipe book is like congress, they Say Something and means something else. [applause] guest if you have avocado, if you build a wall you have no avocado, people. [applause] guest you will have a tamale because we have people on the other side throwing the avocados over. We have retired Baseball Players catching them and if they dont catch them you have immediate avocado free of charge. A way to pay for the world, who knows . That recipe, i love simplicity more often than not in the tomato, the bread, you bring it into your mouth, the crunchiness of that perfectly toasted bread that you bought in the Farmers Market and you spend your entire week saving. That is beautiful, like telling you this mayonnaise, you sent us a grim in a moment, penetrating into the tomato, the feeling it is juicy and your mouth starts going in and then all the juices begin flowing around your mouth. Your tongue is telling you what is going on and you can tell by the first bite that you are ready for the second. You are like an animal. [applause] host there is always a but. You have written a book about vegetables with wonderful recipes, but think about the number of people in this country, in this city who do not have access to good vegetables. Anything in the way of good vegetables. Guest in washington, virginia and maryland, applies the proximity of pennsylvania. The farmland is very plentiful and they work hard and how many of you go to a Farmers Market during the week . Please dont kick out anybody else that raises their hands. Kick them inside, that is the way. Its nothing like going to a Farmers Market and it is expensive. Somehow it is expensive for a lot of reasons. Thats why we were worried about the farm bill before but the bounty we have around that is astonishing. I am only asking people more often than not, the effort to learn, sometimes you will find ingredients you never imagined were so good and dont buy with your eyes. By with your tongue. You see a beautiful peaches a beautiful tomato in the market, that doesnt mean it is a tasty tomato. Sometimes ugly vegetables are the best ones. Be nice to them. They have feelings, they have emotions. It is terrible when they put them in boxes of cheaper because they dont look nice. You should give them your love by bringing them into your home, bringing them into your life. We should behave equally with every human being next to us. Host so why is it that too often a head of broccoli or a head of cauliflower is more expensive than a hamburger . And so people by the hamburger . Guest back to the farm bill. It is fascinating. When i say america equals every other country in the world, they want us to eat the way we eat but if you go and look at the usda, the department of agriculture and you go, what does that the permit of agriculture want us to eat . In the old days it used to be the food. Amid. There were more egyptians in the old days. Now they are more interplanetary. Now it is round. I dont know why they changed it but that is fine. If you look at what the usda tells us on my plate it tells you we should be eating 60 , 70 fruits and vegetables. We should all be saying they care about us, they want us healthy, they want an america that is invincible. When you go to the farm bill and you see how much money the government puts toward subsidies to eat those vegetables it is like 1 , 2 of the entire farm bill. They are telling us 70 but Government Investment support with the money to make sure. I have no problem with the big corn farmers, the big wheat farmers and everybody else to make money. I am a business guy, i want everybody to make money but the subsidies only help the super big companies. Our Little Farmers dont receive the same subsidies. I am only asking why we dont level down the Playing Field . If we give subsidies to the Big Organizations, lets do the same subsidies for the Little Farmers . This way broccoli and cauliflower will be as cheap as this. Because corn is subsidized, so cheap, subsidized by all of us so it is cheaper than the broccoli and cauliflower. I love meet. I didnt achieve this body with, flour alone. But i will not even out the level field. If we do that america will be healthier. Our farmers in Rural America will be better, the communities will create more employment in Rural America. America will join the military and right now we can because we dont have men and Women Healthy enough, a bunch of problems will go away and we will only have a beautiful america moving forward one plate of vegetables at a time. [applause] host i have a beautiful head of cauliflower in my refrigerator now. Give me a wonderful, easy, fast recipe to push that tonight . Guest everybody has a greater at home. Raise your hand. Everybody has a greater. If you dont have a greater, go to your neighborhood. Can you give me a greater . If you have an accent like me, write it on a piece of paper. And i will get the cauliflower and grade the cauliflower and make it into little pieces like couscous. Are you with me . I am from spain, dont like to using gradients from other countries like italy. But you should have pasta blues not very big pasta. A little bit like orzo. And are you with me . By this time it was from spain, if not spanish isnt going to be good. Lets keep going to italy. Maybe apple cider or local cider or local vinegar from virginia even better. We have the, flour and the pasta. You like cheese . If you like cheese you get by or you have this piece of cheese that has been a refrigerator the last 7 years. You should put good faith, you should not say i have been aging the cheese for the last 7 years. Then you grade it. If you like it, you have some tomatoes you can. You boil the pasta, get cauliflower. One minute before you take the pasta out, you put all that cauliflower into the water. You like it raw and outside used rain it, and what is happening . You are talking to each other, they are excited because there are many people from another part of the world. Where are you from . I am from naples and you from virginia. They are having a good time and the cider, you make salt. Maybe you have one of those that has been your kitchen for 20 years, same thing, put on the poker face and say from 20 years, extra edge, great and fine and it is warm right now. You dont want it too hot. You need to be thinking this way. One ingredient, two ingredients, they start meeting each other and the conversation goes on, they are happy the dish is going to be good. Thats my recipe. Cauliflower recipes. [applause] host we have time now for just a couple of questions. I dont know where the microphones are. Here is our first question. Go right ahead. Thank you for bringing Healthy Foods to the world and also Sustainable Food practices including promoting local and seasonal vegetables. I wanted to ask you what recommendations you would give to all the customers out here on how we can find and promote ecofriendly restaurants around the world. Host ecofriendly restaurants around the world. Guest you can vote with your plate. I dont mention french people very often but a frenchman i am a cook, a natural tell me who you are. That is the way you eat bus what i dont want to do is start not patronizing restaurants, they have plastic straws. Everyone wants to do better. Every restaurant wants to do better for practices where we buy and we buy. That is a conversation. It is important you show up including my restaurant. I am not perfect. 20 years ago i used to have shark on my menu because it was a tradition. I am a scuba diver, i support sharks and we shouldnt be killing sharks anywhere in the world. If not they are going to disappear and we cannot afford it. I took sharks out of my restaurant. Time for everybody to be educated but everybody can do what they want but it is an educational process and the sqls quality. If one restaurants does one thing, one restaurant does another, those who participate, should be other ways through democracy to do this. Everybody can do what they want but we should do it in that elegant way. We should do it with good dialogue. We should do with education and listening to each other so we can keep moving america and the world in the right direction. Host question here. My maternal family, i want to thank you for the humanitarian aid you provided puerto rico and i want to ask what is your favorite puerto rican dish . Guest so many i love. Usually chicken, my favorite would be with lobsters. This one is great, but i would tell everybody to find jimmy fallon, he went to puerto rico and i took him on a tour and you will be learning more about puerto rico. That is my favorite. Go, jimmy fallon and take a look at that show and learn more about your Beautiful Island which i call home. [applause] it was definitely some good food but i want to know what your favorite food in the whole world is. My favorite food in the whole world, without a doubt, i am not patronizing anybody, is when my wife cooks at home. She will tell you, passion to be cooking but she has a recipe for her mother, nothing makes me happier than a plate she makes with vinegar on top. Tomorrow, 20 Year Anniversary we have been married. [applause] guest i know i wont be with you tomorrow but thats the way to make it up. My question is relating to volunteerism. You have 25,000 volunteers or have had going from the spanish armada to humanitarian armada. How can i and how can any of us get involved as volunteers with world central kitchen . Guest we should let our fellow sailor be the last one. I will say forget who is in the kitchen. I hope we never have to do that but we like and when you came from far away and trying to impose your ways to the locals, sometimes youre providing aid they dont need and sometimes we dont listen to them and they know best, they know where the medication is and what kitchens we can activate and sometimes when we come from outside we impose our way but that is not the best way to provide it but that works and in many ways you can see we need people around the world. Right now we have a lot of people in florida and the bahamas, people activated in south carolina. Having things moving but everybody can do something. Sometimes you dont need to join an organization. If you see an elderly person crossing the street and you see him having difficulty go right there and help the person across the street, maybe in the supermarket, somebody else having difficulty, everybody can cheer. You dont need to join the organization. We only have to do one thing. I do believe the new American Dream is not only about taking care of your own but the new American Dream is about wishing people know the same things you are wishing for your own. That said. [applause] guest join a Big Organization but sometimes your neighbor next door is the one who needs help. You run your own organization, everyone applies, we are own organization. [applause] guest he is going to be last. Can we do that . We honor all the men and women in uniform that every single day they go beyond. [applause] thanks for this opportunity to ask a question and for your time at the forefront of humanitarian efforts around the world. You talked about a possible reform in governmentsubsidized aid. How important do you think including a cultural resource, Research Sector would be in that aid . Being able to research what customs are in the local area. You talked about how just choosing the right type of food since a completely different message to victims and those in need of aid. Guest we need to understand, thinking of an emergency of millions of americans, sometimes it is easier to talk. It is not one system that is good for everything. We need to have more than one way to do it. When you plan too much, when the things you expect dont go as planned, we lose. The possibility to react. People are so focused when things go unplanned nobody knows what to do. Everybody freezes. That is why efficiency is very important. It is always very important. We go sometime this to pressure mills because of these issues. This is very important not because it is cute, they are bringing vegetarian dishes. Sometimes doing the research, i know fema does that. We do that. We always need to be looking, feeding people every single day of our lives from the moment we are born to the moment we die. It is one of the most important things for humanity. Anything we do in the process, we can fix many of the other problems we have running. Safe travels in florida. Guest sorry, sorry. I am from puerto rico and i want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for the assistance you have given to the island since the hurricane. My question is when we look at situations around the world we look at poverty, we look at hunger. Is there any way to partner more effectively with organizations that do the same kind of work you do or the same kind of work, if we can do that partnership, how cute you thank you for the question. Partnerships are for only one of the most powerful things we have as humans. In making a family, it is beautiful to see them moving forward. Friendships are a partnership to decide to have those friends, nobody is making you befriend them but when talking about these moments partnerships are powerful when they work in a smart way. If you read the book you will see they have disappointment with red cross. The men and women volunteering 24 seven. As a partner i was critical because we werent the little brother. And some word together. Out of the book if you see what has happened lately in california. And in the fires of ventura and it is an amazing job, the shelters, we began partnering well with them making sure every one of those shelters will have food every single day. Partnerships are important, partnerships always work but to be a partner means you will tell others this is not right and this needs to change. When you are honest about that and you make the partnerships understand each other, partnerships can be superproductive. To work so well together in North Carolina and other parts, that shows you that partnerships are powerful. I want to work with more people but again needs to make sense. You cannot just say i am partnering with this organization. I dont do it because it looks good but because at the end who benefits, the people we are trying to serve. [applause] i have one last question for you that i think people would like to know about. What is your favorite drink . Guest for the record i dont really drink. Host but . The best asset our present president of the United States is he doesnt drink at all and this is something i applaud. I tell you i dont drink. When i have a cocktail i am not really drinking. What im doing is supporting local economies. I am drinking wine from virginia, supporting the local economy of virginia, drinking tequila, supporting the great country of mexico. Im not really drinking, i am supporting the people of the world. Does that answer you . Host now. Guest if you tell me one favorite drink i have to go back and say we are tired of him. My wife made the best one in the history of mankind and if you dont believe me, let me tell you, my wife always has a picture because they were having all the wives, i was doing an american menu because they had the restaurant, which a historical american restaurant and you go and say what did you put on the menu . You pretensions mastered. Well, because if you ever read the virginia housewife, one of the early books of american cooking, you will go through the pages in rural virginia in early 1800s, they were making that. The recipe from spain got into virginia, the spanish people were first to arrive here with permission before the english. That dispatch oh almost showed up first, an american cookbook, spanish cookbook. When i say proudly, it is an american recipe, that very much summarized my life history. The country i came from in the country i belong to, we can make the plate. Host you need to sign my book. [applause] guest how do you say love . Every year booktv covers book fairs and festivals around the country and heres a look at the events on the calendar, october 10th12, the book festival at George Mason University in fairfax, virginia. The same weekend tune in for live coverage of the southern festival of books in nashville. October 19th and 20th, boston book festival will welcome 300 speakers and be live that saturday from the wisconsin book festival in madison which anticipates 15,000 people in attendance. Later in the month look for us in austin during the texas book festival. For more information about upcoming book fairs and festivals and watch the previous festival coverage book the book fairs on our website, booktv. Org. Saturday night on booktv at 11 00 pm eastern. If we dont tell our own stories, others will tell them for us. They wont have the same care and concern that we do. This is an important thing for all of us. 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