10/18/2025
José Andrés just published “Change the Recipe,” his 17th book. The subtitle suggests a reason: “Because You Can’t Build a Better World Without Breaking Some Eggs.” It became an instant New York Times bestseller, and, incidentally, a guide that offers up food as a solution to many of the problems plaguing the world: climate, immigration, national security, and dignity. He went to the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York in late September with a plea to those in charge: “The world doesn’t run on oil. It runs on rice.”
