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"I want you to close your eyes and imagine this is January 2021. Imagine the best scenario for you: You have won the election, you have just been sworn in, the Beach Boys are playing the celebration party ... I'm curious about to know if chef Andrés would have a role, either with a position or as an informal advisor in his government.

Would you be willing to give him a position on food policy?

"

- "The answer is that I want his ideas, I want his advice, and I want to talk to him about how we can advance the idea that in the richest country in the world no one should go hungry, period."

- "Chef, you just got a job offer!"

That dialogue took place on May 19.

On the one hand, the journalist of the web Yahoo News, Brittany Shepherd.

On the other, the then US presidential candidate,

Joe Biden

.

The "chef Andrés" was the chef born in Mieres (Asturias), raised in Barcelona, ​​and now American José Andrés, who also participated in the debate, entitled 'Elections 2020: Covid and Food Safety'.

After the exchange between Biden and Shepherd, everyone assumed that, if the Democrat won the election, there would be an Asturian (by birth) in the White House.

Andrés

is the only chef who has been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize for the activities of his NGO World Central Kitchen

, and also the only one who has participated in not one, but two Oscar award ceremonies.

And he is also one of the harshest critics of

Donald Trump

.

So, after Biden's words, there were many who predicted that Andrés would end up having a position in the White House on food security issues, since, after all, he has direct experience in crisis situations with a World Central Kitchen.

It's January 23rd.

Biden has already been sworn in.

The Beach Boys haven't played their party, though Bon Jovi, Bruce Springsteen and Katy Perry have, and the speakers included Broadway star Lin-Manuel Miranda, basketball Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, former presidents Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama and, obviously ... José Andrés.

But the chef is not going to enter the Biden government.

Of course, Andrés wants to influence from outside.

And it has set itself very ambitious goals

.

"I am asking for two things: one, that a national summit on Food be held, something that has not been done since Nixon held it in 1969; and another, the creation of an Office of the National Director of Nutrition and Food, just like the position of National Intelligence Director was created after the 9/11 attacks, "Andrés explained to LOC last Sunday, in a position that World Central Kitchen had placed next to the metal bars that protected the United States Capitol, to

feed the 25,000 soldiers who were being deployed

in the city with the mission of protecting Biden's swearing-in act.

Admired by famous and powerful

The idea of ​​getting the US president to do something that hasn't happened since precisely the year Andrés was born, and of the White House and Congress adopting a measure that was last taken 19 years ago seems far-fetched.

But Andrés has several cards in his favor.

One: know who you have to meet.

Not in vain, the catchphrase that usually accompanies him in the press is "the chef of the celebrities".

His admirers range from

Jeff Bezos

- the owner of Amazon and the richest man in the world until two weeks ago Elon Musk dethroned him - to a whole constellation of Hollywood stars.

And another: despite his confrontation with Trump, his ability to work, as they say in the United States "on both sides of the aisle", that is, with politicians from any party, is beyond doubt.

In fact, on Sunday, serving sandwiches to the soldiers, he was one of the faces of the Trump administration in the fight against the pandemic, the 'surgeon general' - a position that has under his responsibility 6,500 health professionals for situations of emergency - Vice Admiral

Jerome Adams.

At his side, two Democratic congressmen, Jim McGovern and Mike Thompson, were literally voting for Trump to leave as soon as possible.

The one and the other, hand in hand, had given food, according to Andrés' estimates, to some 5,000 soldiers at that point in the city, and to 3,000 more people elsewhere in the rest of Washington.

With that ability to bring rivals together, perhaps this 51-year-old chef will achieve what he sets out to do, despite the fact that his rejection of Trump is still as complete as when both maintained a war of million-dollar lawsuits that they ended up solving in a private agreement in 2017, and which began when

Andrés broke the contract he had to manage a restaurant in the former president's hotel in Washington

, after Trump said that undocumented immigrants are "drug traffickers, rapists, criminals and some, I suppose, good people ".

Trump has left (at least until 2025, since he has already presented the documentation to go to the next elections), and José Andrés, possibly the best-known Spanish brand in Washington, wants to influence the White House.

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