Marcus Samuelsson
It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmotherâ€™s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations.Â Â Â  ,Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his mother, and his sisterâ€”all battling tuberculosisâ€”walked seventy-five miles to a hospital in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Adaba. Tragically, his mother succumbed to the disease shortly after she arrived, but Marcus and his sister recovered, and one year later they were welcomed into a loving middle-class white family in GÃ¶teborg, Sweden. It was there that Marcusâ€™s new grandmother, Helga, sparked in him a lifelong passion for food and cooking with her pan-fried herring, her freshly baked bread, and her signature roast chicken. From a very early age, there was little question what Marcus was going to be when he grew up.,Yes, Chef ,chronicles Marcus Samuelssonâ€™s remarkable journey from Helgaâ€™s humble kitchen to some of the most demanding and cutthroat restaurants in Switzerland and France, from his grueling stints on cruise ships to his arrival in New York City, where his outsize talent and ambition finally come together at Aquavit, earning him a coveted ,New York Times ,three-star rating at the age of twenty-four. But Samuelssonâ€™s career ofÂ  â€œchasing flavors,â€ as he calls it, had only just begunâ€”in the intervening years, there have been White House state dinners, career crises, reality show triumphs and, most important, the opening of the beloved Red Rooster in Harlem. At Red Rooster, Samuelsson has fufilled his dream of creating a truly diverse, multiracial dining roomâ€”a place where presidents and prime ministers rub elbows with jazz musicians, aspiring artists, bus drivers, and nurses. It is a place where an orphan from Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, living in America, can feel at home. ,With disarming honesty and intimacy, Samuelsson also opens up about his failuresâ€”the price of ambition, in human termsâ€”and recounts his emotional journey, as a grown man, to meet the father he never knew. ,Yes, Chef ,is a tale of personal discovery, unshakable determination, and the passionate, playful pursuit of flavorsâ€”one manâ€™s struggle to find a place for himself in the kitchen, and in the world.
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Yes, Chef