José Andrés
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José Ramón Andrés Puerta (1969–), known as José Andrés, is a Spanish chef often credited for bringing the small plates dining concept to America.
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[edit] Life
José Andrés was born on July 13, 1969 in Mieres, Asturias, Spain.
Andrés resides outside of Washington, D.C. in Bethesda, Maryland with a wife, Patricia, and three daughters, Carlota, Ines, and Lucia.
[edit] Career
Early in his career, Andrés trained under Ferran Adria at El Bulli, a famous restaurant in Spain.
Andrés and his partners' company, THINKfoodGROUP, own several restaurants in the Washington, D.C., area:
- minibar by josé andrés serves Andrés' cuisine in a small space. Three chefs serve a prix fixe menu of thirty to thirty-five small courses to six diners at a time. The restaurant has two seatings each night.
- Cafe Atlantico serves Nuevo Latino-style cuisine.
- Jaleo serves traditional Spanish tapas. The restaurant has three locations, in Washington, D.C.; Bethesda, Maryland; and Arlington, Virginia. Jaleo is named after a painting by John Singer Sargent.
- Zaytinya serves mezze, small plates of food from the Mediterranean regions of Greece, Turkey, and Lebanon. Zaytinya means "olive oil" in Turkish.
- Oyamel serves Mexican tacos and antojitos. It was originally located in Crystal City in Arlington, but reopened in Penn Quarter in February 2007. Andrés consulted Mexican food expert Diana Kennedy while developing the menu for Oyamel.
Andrés also operates The Bazaar by Jose Andrés at the SLS Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
Andrés is also a resident culinary expert for MSN Lifestyle.[1]
[edit] Television
From 2005 to 2007, Andrés produced and hosted Vamos a cocinar, a popular food program on Television Española (TVE) Spanish national television.
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[2], 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 [3].
[edit] 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 popular 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.
[edit] 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 Spanish (and Hispanic) cooking from ancient traditions to the fantasies reminiscent of El Bulli, where he once worked, better than anyone else in America today."[citation needed]
In 2005, Food Arts magazine awarded him their prestigious 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."[citation needed]
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 andrés.
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Cafe Atlantico
- Jaleo
- Oyamel
- Zaytinya
- Made in Spain by José Andrés
- Made in Spain on PBS, a public television system
- THINKfoodGROUP
