He stands up for immigrants, feeds disaster survivors, feuds with President Trump and FEMA and presides over a growing culinary empire with 28 restaurants across the country — two in South Florida — and a massive food hall under development in New York. Chef Jose Andres is a one-man whirlwind, and he’s not stopping for the holidays, returning to Puerto Rico this week to help his nonprofit World Central Kitchen serve 40,000 Thanksgiving meals. World Central Kitchen and a coalition of Puerto Rican chefs have served more than 2.7 million meals since Hurricane Maria devastated the island in September, a charitable project that Andres calls “the best investment of my life.”
“Our first...