Young Hollywood. I knew I was young. You are young. That's why we're interviewing you. I am a millennial. Hey, what's up guys? Young Hollywood is here at the LA Food Bowl and we hang out with the very talented chef Jose Andres and he'll tell you about his favorite meal. You are like a scientist when it comes to food. How do you make these extremely unique dishes?

What happens now with the knowledge we have, we can push the boundaries of what we can cook.

It seems it's a fight between traditional and modern cooking.

Yeah. But it shouldn't be, it's only two types of cooking. The good and the bad. I am on the side of the good. At least we try every day.

Yeah. You've gotten so many awards. Uh James Beard Foundation called you an outstanding chef. What's that like to be recognized for your talent?

I kind of laugh, it's it's been uh

Feels good, right?

Uh it feels good, but um I I don't need more. When I go home, my wife and my children criticize me. They don't give me a break on anything and that's the way it should be.

You're cooking at home?

Daddy, uh, all the time. Daddy, uh, this paella today was not as good as the other day. Or daddy, your pizza is not as good as the other Italian chef. I'm like, "Are you kidding me? Who are you?" They're your critics. Awards sometimes they're given to the individual and that's okay, but then we forget that the individual is so is nobody without the people that surround you and I am highly aware that I'm only a fraction of what I get. This is only I'm I'm only doing a fraction because everything else is done by the amazing team I have. And I think it's the same for everybody else.

What would you say to a young chef that wants to be as successful as you someday?

Well, I don't know about success. First, I think we need to define success. And I think my favorite was Winston Churchill who said that success was going from failure to failure without losing enthusiasm. So first, have enthusiasm. And and failure is just part of the learnership of life. And what I will say if you love my business, it is not only about cooking. It's so much more. It's understanding that food touches everything. Food is science, food is history, food is health, food is empowerment. Understanding the power of food can allow you to be part of the world of food and not necessarily being a chef in a kitchen. So, so I hope my daughters they've been uh learning my teachings and maybe they'll be a chef, but maybe not. But what I'm going to make sure is that they understand that every time they have a plate of food in front of them, the plate is telling them something. And that the food you eat and the way you eat and the way you interact with food is a new form of democracy. It's uh it's going to show the intentions of who you are and what you want and what the world that surrounds you. So that's what food should be for anybody that is thinking to get in this profession. You can be whatever you want. You only need to see the magic world of of of food can reach anywhere.

If you had to choose one last meal, like before you died, death row, what are you going to have to eat?

If I was in death row and I only had the opportunity to one meal, I think I will surround myself with sea urchin.

Really?

I will get sea urchin, thousands of sea urchin. And I will eat sea urchin until until until until I die. I I love sea urchin so much. I will love.

So that's your favorite dish, sea urchin.

Sea urchin, I love.

I got to try that. I'm afraid to try. I'm like a little mermaid but I'm not so little. I guess mermaid. If I was a mermaid, I would be eating sea urchin all day.

You'd be swimming in the sea eating sea urchin.

Yeah. Yeah.