Ethiopian - Chef | January 25, 1970 -
I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.
Marcus Samuelsson
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I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.
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I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.
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I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.
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I love having a croissant and a great cup of coffee. Just one cup.
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Each city should have its own type of restaurant.
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I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.
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As people of color, it took a whole generation in many ways to get us out of the kitchen, and it's gonna take us the same whole generation to get us back into the kitchen and have ownership of restaurants, hotels and stuff like that.
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I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.
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Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.
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Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.
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There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.
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