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I’m so grateful to the people who make up @WCKitchen… everyone who volunteers, cooks, serves, donates!🙏 I’ve been honored to spend Thanksgivings with people who after disasters show endless empathy & love for one another! Like the amazing #ChefsForPuertoRico team after Maria🇵🇷
Then the next year again I was with the @WCKitchen team and my family too… next to chefs @GuyFieri @TylerFlorence and so many more in California. Hundreds of #ChefsForCalifornia volunteers came to spend the holiday with families who lost everything in the horrible Camp Fire.
In 2019, the northern Bahamas islands were devastated by Hurricane Dorian. Three months after the storm, on Thanksgiving, @WCKitchen teams were still cooking everyday… so we set up a special meal to bring families together with music, kids crafts, dinner, dessert! 🥧
5 years ago #HurricaneMaria hit the island of Puerto Rico.. the lives of millions of people changed forever. I got on the first flight I could get & when I landed it was devastation like I've never seen before. So we @WCKitchen did the only thing we knew, started cooking... 🇵🇷 
I'm a cook, and what I saw around me everywhere was so many people who what they needed was a hot meal. From my friend Jose Enrique's restaurant in Santurce @WCKitchen started making Sancocho. We started with one pot, one kitchen but so quickly #ChefsForPuertoRico grew.
What I saw was too many people in conference rooms making plans... making plans while people went hungry. So we cooked.. after just few days @WCKitchen #ChefsForPuertoRico opened a second kitchen. Volunteers from all over came to help. Puerto Ricans feeding Puerto Ricans!
Our herman@s in #PuertoRico need our help. 100s of earthquakes have rattled the island since late Dec. A 6.4 magnitude quake Tuesday caused severe destruction, killing at least 1, injuring more, damaging buildings + landmarks (incl Punta Ventana), and instilling fear in many.
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Thousands, including families with young children, are now forced to sleep outside or in shelters, rather than in vulnerable or compromised structures. Our prayers are with the resilient Puerto Rican people in the wake of yet another tragedy.
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Millions of U.S. citizens continue to be literally & metaphorically shaken by ongoing quakes. Due to damage to a major power plant, the island was once again without electricity, reminiscent of the prolonged blackout and emergency situation that followed Hurricane Maria. 3/
PEOPLE OF AMERICA! Tonight I am attending the #SOTU in the People’s House as a proud American citizen...and today I am sharing a few things I’ve seen over the last year traveling the country and world with @WCKitchen - my own thoughts on the #stateoftheunion (thread)
In California, where wildfires burned up and down the state, we met true superheroes - firefighters, search-and-rescue, National Guard - who showed incredible bravery and humanity, working to save others even as their own homes were threatened by flame.
In North Carolina after Hurricane Florence, we served alongside members of the Lumbee Tribe as they worked to rebuild their community and their lives with such positivity, not letting the rains dampen their spirits
