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"50 Marcus Samuelsson Quotes & Sayings

      Ethiopian     /     View profile
Born: 25 January 1971 | Chef | Restaurateur |

I love using rice as a flour; I'll grind roasted rice and dip fish in that. It gives a beautiful, crunchy texture.

Beautiful Dip Fish Flour
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Like all food, whether you're talking about Persian food, or Chinese food, or Swedish food, it's always a reflection of wars, trading, a bunch of good and a bunch of bad. But what's left is always the food story.

About Always Bad Bunch
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We know so much about the European food story, and we're getting to know about the American food story; but we know so little about the African food story.

About African American European
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I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started meeting people from the Ethiopian community.

About After Child Community
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As an adopted person, once you find out about that 'other' side of yourself, it's almost like you find out who you really are.

About Adopted Almost Find
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Most of my education has been around food.

Around Been Education Food
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Food has always been in my life. Being born in Ethiopia, where there was a lack of food, and then really cooking with my grandmother Helga in Sweden. And my grandmother Helga was a cook's cook.

Always Been Being Born
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To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.

Am Become Cook Good
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Criticism is part of the creative man's journey, and I appreciate it.

Appreciate Creative Criticism Journey
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I stand behind everything I've done.
Behind Done Everything Stand
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I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

American Being Black Chef
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You have to balance, but you can be aggressive as a chef. It benefits the food. You have to be passionate. You can't be angry cooking.

Aggressive Angry Balance Benefits
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There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

Announcement Between Divides Food
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If it's done really well, you don't want big portions because you think, 'That was so fulfilling. I'm not stuffed. I feel great.'

Because Big Done Feel
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Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.

Because Delicious Eating Good
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I think it's very expensive to not eat healthy. Eating healthy is the only affordable option we have left.

Affordable Eat Eating Expensive
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I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there's a celebrity aspect to it or not.

Am Aspect Celebrity Cooking
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I feel like there's a lot of tasks in cooking that I want to master, that I want to do better.

Better Cooking Feel Like
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I love having a croissant and a great cup of coffee. Just one cup.

Coffee Cup Great Having
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I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant.
Hard Immigrant Inspired Journey
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Every time you use the word 'healthy,' you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy.

Delicious Every Food Happens
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I don't distinguish the music I listen to from great music - it's just music. There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.
Announcement Between Distinguish Divides
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Each city should have its own type of restaurant.

City Each Own Restaurant
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I can take a lot of pride that I can launch cookbooks and there's an audience out there that supports that.

Audience Cookbooks Launch Lot
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I think the kitchen is the new garage. And I think for a guy that wants to go out and be an evolved person, he should know about his local favorite restaurant. He should know how to cook something.

About Cook Evolved Favorite
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I love Thanksgiving because it's a holiday that is centered around food and family, two things that are of utmost importance to me.
Around Because Centered Family
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Being an Ethiopian-born, Swedish-raised chef, there's nothing traditional about my Thanksgiving spread.

About Being Chef Nothing
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Cooking turkey every year doesn't have to be monotonous - I want people to always mix it up using different spices and preparations.

Always Cooking Different Every
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There are so many times there could have been a left turn instead of a right turn in all people's lives. I think mine are pretty crystal clear, because of being adopted, being born in Ethiopia, being adopted to Sweden.

Adopted Because Been Being
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I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.
Back Because Been House
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The food business is very tough, but there's also a lot of love and very giving.

Also Business Food Giving
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It's fascinating when you're from another place, but you don't speak the language.

Another Fascinating Language Place
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My father loved to take us on historical vacations, and you should have seen the stares we received in East Berlin.

Berlin East Father Historical
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Oatmeal is a cheap and healthy breakfast.
Breakfast Cheap Healthy Oatmeal
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If you get hungry mid-day, a banana is the best snack at your desk, after a workout, or in between classes. Fruit is a very good snack in general.

After Banana Best Between
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Salad can get a bad rap. People think of bland and watery iceberg lettuce, but in fact, salads are an art form, from the simplest rendition to a colorful kitchen-sink approach.

Approach Art Bad Bland
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Whether you're on a diet, or you're looking for a go-to one bowl dinner recipe, salads should be thought of as crowd-pleasers, not a dreaded component of a meal.

Bowl Component Diet Dinner
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Although I believe affection and romance should be shown all year around, it's always smart to have a good plan up your sleeve for Valentine's Day.

Affection Although Always Around
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I love chicken. But, like a lot of chefs and cooks, I get tired of preparing it the same way.

Chefs Chicken Cooks Get
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Simple ingredients can be used to make elegant dishes with just a little extra attention to detail.

Attention Detail Dishes Elegant
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Childhood nutrition and healthy eating is a cause that is extremely close to my heart.
Cause Childhood Close Eating
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Let the fresh fruits and vegetables be your guide, and make something that will keep for the whole week.

Fresh Fruits Guide Keep
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I'm a firm believer that people find their own passions.

Believer Find Firm Own
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I learned at a young age what chasing flavors meant, and I've been doing that my whole life.

Age Been Chasing Doing
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Packing lunches and going over menus is a great way to make small changes in the way your kids eat.

Changes Eat Going Great
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For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.

Available Clean Consider Ever
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Spices, of course, are essential.
Course Essential Spices
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When you are already eating as cheaply and meagerly as possible, any raise in cost can quickly plunge you and your family into hunger.

Any Cheaply Cost Eating
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People might not protest for overtly political or social causes, but when they can't feed themselves and their family, they will take to the streets.

Causes Family Feed Might
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The reasons for food insecurity are many and varied. But part of the problem is the global farming systems.

Farming Food Global Insecurity
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Marcus Samuelsson Quotes & Sayings