"Now, sometimes when I go, everybody seems to have a camera," he said. "It's OK. I just go and try to do the best I can and donate my time." Andrés' work has drawn plenty of accolades.

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José Andrés remembers when he went to Haiti after the devastating 2010 earthquake that the government estimates killed more than 300,000 people.