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Hey, this is the moment.

I'm Brian Koppelman, Thanks for listening. Today's guest is Marcus Sanderson, who

born in Ethiopia, moved to Sweden at a very young age, came to New York, and was the executive chef at Aquavit, a restaurant

that was incredible and is no longer here that I ate at a lot as a young man.

Then open Red Rooster, which is a sensation.

It was cooked the first Obama State dinner.

It was the youngest three-star chef ever.

James Beard Award winner, TV Star. If you're listening to this, you know, Marcus is.

And hey Marcus, thanks for doing this.

Thank you for having an author, which we're going to talk about a lot, because your new book,

the title of which is Red Rooster, the Red Rooster cookbook really talks about the hustle and food and the people of Harlem.

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.

Yeah, yeah.

For people who don't want to cook.

Yeah.

And who might miss the book. And a lot of people listen to show are big readers. Yeah.

Those essays are really incredible that's a really jazz like Ralph Ellison informed

version of a memoir. I know you've written a memoir,

but this thing is consciously written

to emulate a certain style,

Harlem Renaissance style, and then Ralph Ellison style

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