Ron Howard's absorbing new documentary about chef José Andrés and his nonprofit relief organization, World Central Kitchen, opens with Andrés' team navigating flooded roads to deliver food after 2018's Hurricane Florence. Soon enough we'll see him visiting Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake, then Puerto Rico and the Bahamas in the wake of hurricanes as well as other locales after disasters and pandemics.
Andrés moves around so much — and without much advance warning — that his daughters joined Twitter simply to "keep track of him" around the globe.
What makes Andrés run? "We Feed People" doesn't probe deeply for answers beyond making a convincing case that he has an insatiable passion for feeding hungry people and creating systems where they can take care of themselves in the wake of calamity. In this long era of ego-driven celebrity chefs, we've become well-acquainted with the idea that these people feel at home with chaos. Andrés simply takes this ease with anarchy outside the kitchen as he and his organization try to stamp out suffering.
