Simon Marks is LBC's Washington Correspondent Whatever your view on the crisis in Gaza, one thing is absolutely apparent: in Chef José Andrés, the founder of World Central Kitchen, the Israelis have messed with the wrong man. In the interests of full disclosure, I have met Andrés several times, and briefly worked with him on a series of programmes that he was making for America’s PBS television network.
Humanitarians and civilians should never be paying the consequences of war”, he continued.The term “celebrity chef” does not adequately encapsulate the standing that Andrés enjoys in Washington D.C. His rock star status here was forged in his creation of a chain of restaurants that he claims introduced “tapas” to the US capital. But in a city where people are judged by how much power their wield, Andrés has bagfuls of it, and it’s not due solely to the strength of his Catalan Spinach.