His list of achievements is breathtaking.

He is a Michelin-starred chef with restaurants nationwide, an Emmy Award-winning TV host and producer, and a New York Times best-selling cookbook author. Moreover, he is the founder of the humanitarian nonprofit World Central Kitchen that provides emergency food to war-torn and natural disaster-stricken countries around the world, an endeavor that has garnered him a James Beard Foundation “Humanitarian of the Year,” and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.

All that’s missing is a Nobel Prize. And frankly, he deserves that, too.

Jose Andres’ impact on the culinary industry and the world at large has been monumental.

The Spanish-born chef has made his home with his family in Maryland for more than two decades. But his homeland remains a constant influence on all that he does.

His newest cookbook, “Spain My Way” (Ecco), of which I received a review copy, exemplifies that.

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