Jose Andres (ThinkFoodGroup, minibar, Jaleo)
Location: Science Center D
This public lecture series discusses concepts from the physical sciences that underpin both everyday cooking and haute cuisine. Each lecture features a world-class chef who visited and presented their remarkable culinary designs: Ferran Adria presented spherification; Jose Andres discussed both the basic components of food and gelation; Joan Roca demonstrated sous vide; Enric Rovira showed his chocolate delicacies; Wylie Dufresne presented inventions with transglutaminase. The lectures then use these culinary creations as inspiration to delve into understanding how and why cooking techniques and recipes work, focusing on the physical transformations of foods and material properties.
Who is José
Andrés?
José
Ramón Andrés Puerta
(born 13 July 1969), known as José Andrés, is a Spanish chef often credited for
bringing the small plates dining concept
to America. His restaurants include Jaleo,
Oyamel, Zaytinya, minibar and
barmini by Jose Andres in Washington DC, The Bazaar by Jose Andres at the SLS Hotel Beverly Hills and South
Beach, Jaleo by Jose Andres, China
Poblano and "é" in Las Vegas
Nevada and most recently Mi Casa at
Dorado Beach, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve.
Personal Life
José Andrés was born
in Mieres, Asturias, Spain. He is married and has three daughters.
Career
Early in his career,
Andrés trained under Ferran Adria at the restaurant El Bulli.
Beginning in the fall
of 2010, Andrés taught a culinary
physics course at Harvard University with Ferran Adrià.
In May 2012, Andrés
was named dean of Spanish Studies at The International Culinary Center (formally
The French Culinary Institute), where he and Colman Andrews developed a
curriculum in traditional and modern Spanish cuisine, which will debut in
February 2013.
On 29 October 2012, he
announced he was heading back to the classroom, and would teach his first course
on how food shapes civilization at George Washington University next year.
Owned and/or Operated Restaurants
Along
with partner Rob Wilder, Andrés owns several concept
restaurants:
1.
minibar by José
Andrés serves Andrés' cuisine in a small space. Three chefs serve a prix
fixe menu of about 25 small courses to six diners at a time. The restaurant
has two seatings each night.
2.
barmini by José Andrés
is the chef's new experimental cocktail bar adjacent to minibar.
3.
America Eats serves
traditional American dishes in conjunction with the Foundation for the National
Archives in the former Cafe Atlantico space, closed 4 July 2012 after being
open exactly one year.
4.
Jaleo serves
traditional Spanish tapas. The restaurant has four locations, in Washington,
D.C.; Bethesda, Maryland; Arlington, Virginia and at The Cosmopolitan of Las
Vegas. Jaleo is named after a painting by John Singer Sargent.
5.
Zaytinya serves mezze,
small plates of food from the Mediterranean regions of Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon.
Zaytinya means "olive oil" in Turkish. The restaurant is a short
distance from the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C..
6.
Oyamel serves a
variety of small plates and antojitos. It was originally located in Crystal
City in Arlington, but reopened in Penn Quarter in February 2007. Andrés
consulted food expert Diana Kennedy while developing the menu for Oyamel.
7.
é by José Andrés is
similar to minibar. It is located at The Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
8.
The Bazaar serves a
combination of traditional Spanish tapas and foods inspired by molecular
gastronomy. It has locations in Beverly Hills, California and Miami
Beach, Florida.
9.
China Poblano
offers a combination of Chinese and Mexican dishes. It is located at The
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas.
10.
Mi Casa serves a
combination of Spanish and traditional Puerto Rican cuisine. It is located in Dorado,
Puerto Rico.
Television
From 2005 to 2007,
Andrés produced and hosted Vamos a
cocinar, a popular food program on Televisión Española (TVE) Spanish
national television.
In 2006, Andrés
appeared on Gourmet's Diary of a Foodie.
This show is broadcast on PBS and is affiliated with Gourmet Magazine. Andrés
was featured in the second episode of the first season and the episode title is
Anatomy of a Meal with José Andrés.
In April 2007, he competed against Chef Bobby Flay on Food Network's
program Iron Chef America defeating Flay.
In 2008, Andrés
launched his first TV program in the United States, Made in Spain, a 26-part series for public
television. It was produced by Full Plate Media and sponsored by KQED, a San
Francisco public television station.
In 2008, Andrés and minibar
were featured on the Washington, D.C. episode of the Travel Channel show Anthony
Bourdain: No Reservations.
Andrés was featured in
a segment (first broadcast 2 May 2010) with Anderson Cooper for 60 Minutes.
In May 2010, Andrés
demonstrated molecular
gastronomy techniques on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, creating gazpacho sorbet
and liquid olives.
In August 2010, Andrés
guest starred as a judge on the hit television show "Top Chef".
In August 2011, Andrés
made another guest appearance on a Spain-themed episode of the Travel Channel
show Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations where he accompanied Anthony Bourdain to
El Bulli.
In February 2013,
Andrew Zimmern and his Travel Channel show, Bizarre Foods visited Washington DC
and José Andrés hosted him at his Jaleo and America Eats Tavern restaurants.
On 12 March 2013,
Andrés was a guest judge and mentor for the season finale of The Taste.
Books
Andrés released his
first cookbook on tapas and Spanish cuisine in 2005. It was first published in English
as Tapas:
A Taste of Spain in America and shortly after in Spanish as Los fogones de José Andrés.
A second book based on
his Spanish cooking show Vamos a cocinar
was published in Spain in May 2007.
A companion book to
Andrés' public television series, Made
in Spain: Spanish Dishes for the American Kitchen, was published in
November 2008.
Awards
In 2003, Andrés won
the James Beard Foundation’s award for Best Chef of the Mid-Atlantic Region.
Bon Appetit magazine
named Andrés its Chef of the Year in 2004 and Food & Wine magazine included
Andrés in their "35 Under 35" Tastemakers list for 2004. Saveur
magazine included Andrés on their 2004 Saveur Top 100 list, stating that he
"represents the broad spectrum of Hispanic cooking from ancient
traditions to the fantasies reminiscent of El Bulli, where he once worked,
better than anyone else in America today".
In 2005, Food Arts
magazine awarded him their Silver Spoon award, referring to him as "the irrepressibly
energetic chef José Andrés, the best thing to happen to Spain in North America
since 1492."
In 2006, Andrés was
named Chef of the Year by the Restaurant Association of Metropolitan Washington.
In 2007, Andrés was
inducted into the Who's Who of Food & Beverage in America list.
In 2008, the Bravo
Network awarded Andrés the prize for A-List Chef at the first Bravo A-List
Awards. The James Beard Foundation nominated Andrés as Outstanding Chef for his
work at minibar by José Andres.
In 2010, his Beverly
Hills restaurant, The Bazaar by José Andrés, at the SLS hotel was recognized as
one of GAYOT.com's Top 10 New Restaurants in the U.S.
In 2010, the Cabinet
of Spain voted to award Andrés the Order of Arts and Letters (Orden de las Artes y las Letras de España).
In 2011, Andrés won
the James Beard Foundation's Outstanding Chef Award.
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