At Lisner, José Andrés Tells an Epic Story—His Own (GW Today)

Decades after José Andrés first arrived in New York City, he can still conjure the scene vividly—and the picture he paints is pure Hollywood. Andrés, then completing his mandatory service in the Spanish Navy after serving as an admiral’s cook, got his first glimpse of sunlight glittering off Manhattan’s skyscrapers from a high perch in the shrouds of an old-style four-masted tall ship straight out of “Master and Commander.”