Much like life, he delightfully points out, a great restaurant is more than just a series of services it is a collection of meals and memories. Samuelsson carries readers through his many failures and successes as a cook in restaurants like New York’s Aquavit and France’s Georges Blanc and in his relationships. When he’s 12 and on a fishing trip with his father, Samuelsson cooks his first meal and learns an important lesson about the beauty of food in context and how important it is to let the dishes be reflective of your surroundings. From his grandmother’s food he learns rustic cooking and the ways that she knew intuitively how to create various textures in foods. With the consummate skill of a master chef, Samuelsson cooks up a steaming stew of his life from his earliest cooking lessons at the hands of his grandmother to his various apprenticeships in Switzerland, France, and New York.
Samuelsson and his sister survived their mother, and they were soon adopted by a couple in Sweden. When he was two, Samuelsson, his older sister, and his mother contracted tuberculosis in rural Ethiopia after several days journey to the capital Addis Ababa, the three were admitted to a hospital. JAMES BEARD AWARD NOMINEE NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY VOGUE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEROne of the great culinary stories of our time.
Samuelsson, the chef and owner of Harlem’s famed Red Rooster restaurant, masterfully serves us a delicious banquet full of the ingredients that compose his own enchanting yet poignant story. 0 Marcus Samuelsson Talks New Memoir Yes, Chef For celebrity chef Marcus Samuelsson, honesty was the only option when it came to writing his new memoir, Yes, Chef.He talks about his unlikely. Written and narrated by chef Marcus Samuelsson, the autobiography Yes Chef shares the journey of a novice home cook transforming into an elite celebrity chef.
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