Cooking through the crisis with Jose Andres’ new cookbook

Uwhen the news feels overwhelming, I often turn to cooking. It was especially fitting this week that at the top of my pile of newly released cookbooks was that of Chef José Andrés The World Central Kitchen Cookbook. Its pages brought me moments of joy and inspiration. The recipes—including Haitian griot, Ukrainian borscht, and Afghan chickpea stew with spinach—are all about crunch time sustenance. Simple meals can provide hope to survivors and sustenance to first responders.

The books the basic philosophy is use what you have, which I can get behind. This led me to try the chicken chile verde recipe (pictured below) that World Central Kitchen volunteers served to migrant refugees in East Texas, flood survivors in Nebraska, and firefighters in Redding, California.

Bright and spicy, I will eat this again and again. I highly recommend a comforting soup or stew this weekend.

PS Friends from Colorado, my book tour is appearing at the Boulder Book Store with a Raw Deal signing and discussion on Monday, October 30th starting at 6:00 PM Mt. Register for free entry here. Can’t wait to see you there!

— Chloe Sorvino, staff writer

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Field notes

The a power snack to end all power snacksfrom a recent 8am interview at the Corner Bar by Chef Ignacio Matos, located inside the oh so chic a boutique hotel in my neighborhood, Nine Orchard.

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Chloe Sorvino leads food and agriculture coverage as a staff writer on the Forbes corporate team. her book, Raw Deal: Hidden Corruption, Corporate Greed, and the Fight for the Future of Meat, published on December 6, 2022 with Simon & Schuster’s Atria Books. Her nearly nine years reporting for Forbes have taken her to In-N-Out Burger’s secret test kitchen, parched farms in California’s Central Valley, burned national forests logged by a lumber billionaire, a century-old slaughterhouse in Omaha, and even a chocolate croissant factory designed as a medieval castle in northern France.