With hishunger-relief effortsin Puerto Rico now stretching beyond two months and 3 million meals,60 Minutesran aJosé Andrés segmentlast night that Anderson Cooper describes at the start (maybea littleunderstatedly) as “a good Thanksgiving story.” The chef, who almost literally hasn’t entered any of his restaurants since Hurricane Maria hit, tells Cooper that it was a humanitarian free-for-all when he arrived in September with only his credit cards and $10,000 in cash. He found the island’s only usable ingredients — what was stored in big food-production companies’ freezers — and spent the next weeks giving hungry Puerto Ricans an early Thanksgiving: big tablefuls of the onlyfreshly cooked foodthey could get.
“An MRE is very expensive for the American taxpayer. A hot meal is more affordable,” he notes in what might qualify asanotherFEMA dig, adding that all citizens “should be receiving one plate a day of hot food. That’s not too much to ask in America.”
