Arrive Magazine - November/December, 2011

next accident might become your family’s lifelong tradition.

In Spain, where Andrés grew up, his family would gather in the picturesque home of his grandparents in Catalonia to make stew every Christmas.

“Potatoes, cab-
bage, carrots, three
or four different
meats—like cow’s
feet and a little bit
of shank,” he says.
“And we’d make a
big meatball with
pork and veal and
garlic and cinna-
mon and parsley
and salt and egg
and bread. And this
was a big family
tradition—on the
“My culinary traditions are very
broad,” he says. “Maybe because I’m
a chef, everyone knows I cannot sit
still. But what has always remained
true and strong is the understanding
of Thanksgiving to unite people and
unite cultures.”
And to unite families.

Not too long after that first Thanksgiving in New York, Andrés was in Miami to open a restaurant. He was already “madly in love” with his wife, Patricia, but work was forcing him to spend the holiday away from her. He bought three or four dozen stone crab claws for his holiday meal.

But his memories about the Thanksgiving he spent alone were too strong, and at the last second he decided, “What the heck.” Wearing his summery clothes—a short-sleeved shirt and flip-flops—he got on the plane to D.C. with the crabs in his arms.

He arrived right before dinner.

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