Change the Recipe: Because You Can't Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs | 
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Chef Jose Andres' is an inspiration. This is a short book.(Under 200 pages) About his life, the lessons he has learned and of course about food. It isn't incredibly deep on details but it is filled with quotable inspiration and a fantastic surface look at how he got to where he is and what philosophies keep him moving forward. Highly recommend.
The end of this honors the 7 WCK volunteers who were killed by Israel in Gaza. It is heartbreaking and infuriating that no justice has happened for these amazing people who were just trying to feed people.
This is a small book, a book about Chefs life and an inspirational look at food, but it is incredibly powerful and I am crying listening to Andres delivering the eulogy in DC for these 7. You can listen to this eulogy on Spotify.
Some of the chapters:
You don't need everything to be happy
Seek Out Simple Pleasures
Say yes to help
Commit to what matters
You're a player not a spectacular
You really don't know everything
Act with the fierce urgency of now
Serve something greater than yourself
Time is your most valuable ingredient
Your purpose is finding your purpose
What the perfect book to read after one about how horrible the Facebook people are.
"...listen not just to the policymakers but to the people on the receiving end of those policies. Just because you mean well doesn't mean that you'll do well. Just because you're doing good doesn't mean you are doing smart good."
An incredible inspiration, one who is alive, thriving and willing to pass on knowledge. We as a world need more Jose Andres'
My next up reads are very yellow 💛 and black 🖤
Really excited to get into this Ardern book, Andres is shorter so planning on flying through that this weekend
Nonfiction November is coming and looking through what I have on hand to read is making me a bit sad. I am reading Murderland and Midnight in the Garden (maybe Peepshow if I can squeeze it in)for Spooky Month. I would really love to hear fun NF you have read lately I could throw in? I have the new Mary Roach on audio, and thanks to @Hooked_on_books Cheese War is waiting for me at the library. I am really excited for the tagged.
pickI loved this book. Chef Jose Andres founded World Central Kitchen, a pretty amazing thing. He briefly talks about how his work in the culinary world began, shares a few simple recipes, and gives good life advice. Each chapter has stories of food, and towards the end he speaks about his experiences serving food in current times of war. Our world is full of many problems, but food is one thing that brings all of humanity together. The chef ⬇️
It‘s never too early or too late to change the recipe and fix our broken world.
Hot meals are magical. In a disaster or war, they feed your stomach and your soul. Cooking food transforms the ingredients and the way we feel when we eat them. A hot meal tells you that somebody cares.
We need to stop the bullshit and be much, much smarter. Because the recipes of the past have not been good enough. New recipes must be written. New ingredients must be brought to the table. New ways of thinking must be embraced. If we don‘t dramatically change what we do, and how we do it, we are wasting our time. Poverty and hunger will worsen in a world with a climate is in crisis. We need to learn from the great successes and the great⬇️
Cooks perform magic by taking raw ingredients, preparing them in the way they want, lighting a fire, and conjuring up a meal that is flavorful, warm, and nourishing. You put everything in a pot, some water and ingredients, and after love and time and heat and warmth, you end up with a dish. Cooking in a terra-cotta pot is the closest thing in a kitchen to becoming a mother. All the ingredients grew together in a pot that bears life.
