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Podcast: The Institute of Black Imagination.
Episode: E21. The Soul of American Food w. Top Chef Marcus Samuelsson
Description: Today’s episode is with the award-winning chef and restaurateur, Marcus Samuelsson.Hailing from a tiny Ethiopian village where tuberculosis had spread amongst the population, a two-year-old Marcus and his sister found themselves orphaned after his birth mother succumbed to the disease… but not after she’d walked 75 miles to the nearest hospital with young Marcus and his sister in tow. Taken in by a compassionate hospital nurse, he and his sister were later adopted by a family in Gothenburg Sweden, where Marcus’ love of cooking began.Although he is best known as the owner of the Ha...