Superstar chef José Andrés visits SEAS with a message

Wednesday, December 11, 2019 - 19:20 in Mathematics & Economics

When Americans think of superstar chef José Andrés, most envision him either decked out in a stained, worn out vest, cooking and feeding thousands of victims of natural disasters in places like the Bahamas, Puerto Rico, or Haiti, or in his kitchen whites opening some hotly-anticipated new restaurant in his native Washington, D.C., New York, or Las Vegas. This week, however, Andrés put all that aside to judge a student science fair at the John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS) and to join food science writer Harold McGee in marking the 10th anniversary of the popular Science + Cooking course and lecture series. McGee’s essential book, “On Food and Cooking” grew out of the course, and both men have been instrumental in the program’s success. The course sprang unexpectedly from a 2008 Harvard visit by the legendary Ferran Adrià, whose groundbreaking, three-Michelin-star restaurant in Spain, El Bulli, helped...

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