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what i’ve learned José Andrés

__ MOVING HAS BEEN VERY IMPORTANT

for me, discovering new places, realizing that the more you know, the more you know that you know nothing—especially cooking.

__ THE RITUALS THAT GO INTO the process of cooking and enjoying the meal are a gigantic ritual of feeling. Feeling is the most important thing we do from the moment we’re born to the moment we die.

Next to breathing, it’s the thing we have

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