Immigrant workers are planning a big strike for Thursday, February 16 to protest the immigration crackdowns put into place by the gin-soaked fingers of Stephen Bannon and signed by the tiny-little-itty-bitty hands of President Trump. Chefs and restaurant owners are supportive with some keeping their restaurants open but still paying the workers who are boycotting, while others plan on closing down their restaurants completely as a show of solidarity.
Celebrity chef José Andrés, an immigrant from Spain, announced on Twitter that he will be closing some of his restaurants in the region because of the boycott — three Jaleo restaurants, Zaytinya and Oyamel. Andrés backed out of a contract in 2015 with Trump to open a restaurant inside D.C.’s Trump International Hotel after the then-presidential candidate called undocumented Mexican immigrants “criminals” and “rapists.” The two are still in the middle of a legal battle.
Other well-known chef Alex Colicchio had this to say.
Tastingtable.com has a list of some other big-time gourmands showing their love for the resistance. You cannot make an omelette without breaking some eggs. In this case the omelette is fascism and bigotry and the eggs are right-wing fee-fees.