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FEMA feuds with celebrity chef who served meals in Puerto Rico
The Hill
A Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) official on Monday called celebrity chef José Andrés “a businessman looking for stuff to promote his business” after the chef criticized the response to Hurricane Maria while providing meals on the island, BuzzFeed News reported.
“He was very critical of us publicly and we were disappointed he took that approach,” Marty Bahamonde, director of the FEMA disaster operations division, told the news outlet. “We had a good working relationship, and we paid him a lot of money to do that work. It wasn’t volunteer work — so we were disappointed in some of his public comments.”
FEMA reportedly awarded Andrés two short-term contracts worth a combined $11.5 million to assist in relief work. Andrés’s Washington-based organization, World Central Kitchen, has served millions of meals to Puerto Ricans as the island recovers from Hurricane Maria.