Marcus Samuelsson: 2/21/17

The Moment with Brian Koppelman

Brian Koppelman & Gemini XIII

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🗓️ 21 February 2017

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Marcus Samuelsson is the chef and co-owner of Red Rooster in Harlem, an American cuisine restaurant that celebrates the tastes and different cultures of Harlem. Samuelsson recently authored The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story of Food and Hustle in Harlem. They talk about Marcus’s journey as an immigrant making his way as a New York City chef, how he began learning about Harlem to create food there, and about the role food plays at different moments in culture. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The following podcast contains explicit language.
0:03.2	Hey, this is the moment.
0:10.2	I'm Brian Koppelman, Thanks for listening. Today's guest is Marcus Sanderson, who
0:17.0	born in Ethiopia, moved to Sweden at a very young age, came to New York, and was the executive chef at Aquavit, a restaurant
0:25.2	that was incredible and is no longer here that I ate at a lot as a young man.
0:30.4	Then open Red Rooster, which is a sensation.
0:34.0	It was cooked the first Obama State dinner.
0:37.0	It was the youngest three-star chef ever.
0:40.0	James Beard Award winner, TV Star. If you're listening to this, you know, Marcus is.
0:45.6	And hey Marcus, thanks for doing this.
0:47.2	Thank you for having an author, which we're going to talk about a lot, because your new book,
0:51.9	the title of which is Red Rooster, the Red Rooster cookbook really talks about the hustle and food and the people of Harlem.
0:59.0	Well, it does, and it's not, I mean, it's weird as I was reading it, I was like, I wish that you could also just publish the essays.
1:05.6	Yeah, yeah.
1:06.6	For people who don't want to cook.
1:10.6	Yeah.
1:11.6	And who might miss the book. And a lot of people listen to show are big readers. Yeah.
1:15.1	Those essays are really incredible that's a really jazz like Ralph Ellison informed
1:24.0	version of a memoir. I know you've written a memoir,
1:25.0	but this thing is consciously written
1:28.0	to emulate a certain style,
1:30.0	Harlem Renaissance style, and then Ralph Ellison style
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