The Chef Jose Andres does not stop In addition to running its many restaurants and leading the NGO World Central Kitchen, he has time to star in his own documentary series, appear on all kinds of television shows, open new stores and collaborate with various projects. In addition, the Asturian chef has his own podcast, where he is not shy about give spanish cooking lessons professional colleagues like Gordon Ramsay.
As he recently shared in a small video posted on his TikTok account, taken from the recording of one of the latest TV shows. Longer Tables, the name of his podcast, José Andrés is in favor of encouraging more and more people around the world to cook paella. But there’s a hoop through which refuses to pass: no chorizo.
The cook, comfortably seated in his armchair and with a glass of wine in his hand, sends a message to his listeners with a serene voice and a very serious tone: “Do not follow Gordon RamseyDon’t put chorizo in your paella”.
@chefjoseandres Hello my friend @gordonramsayofficial ♬ original sound – José Andrés
One of her daughters, with whom she recorded the episode sharing family experiences after the recording of the series broadcast in Spain on HBO Max, reacts doubtfully; “Does she put chorizo in her paella?”, To which José Andrés responds, shaking his head, with a puzzled face. resignation and a half laugh, “Oh my gosh, yeah.”
The chef from Mieres is a prolific ambassador of Spanish cuisine throughout the world who does not hesitate to adapt the typical recipes of all our gastronomy to the foreign palate, while respecting tradition, and has spent years defending the uniqueness of the authentic paella, the Valencian paella. Without ceasing to offer other varieties and recipes of rice that are also very much ours, José Andrés himself has participated in the research project that tried to establish the essential ingredients of the Valencian.
In ‘José Andrés and family in Spain’ they even visit Valencia itself to show first-hand what an authentic paella is like, insisting a lot that does not carry shellfishNeither peas nor, of course, chorizo. Although abroad, and particularly the Anglo-Saxons, insist on adding this sausage to everything.
Like Jamie Oliver, his compatriot Gordon Ramsay has appeared in various publications and programs preparing paellas with chorizo, helping to spread the false idea that it is a hallmark of the Spanish dish. And José Andrés has no problem adapting dishes to cultures, but must be more than fed up to see how his colleagues and friends by profession disgrace the paella with an ingredient that has nothing to contribute, other than completely changing the flavor and masking the other ingredients.
We don’t know if the message will have reached Ramsay, but we assume that the British chef will be more than aware that the paella does not contain chorizo. Another thing is that choose to ignore it.
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