He has been featured on a number of media platforms including Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the Martha Stewart Show, Today Show, Regis and Kelly, and Charlie Rose. In addition to being a successful cookbook author, Marcus released his New York Times Bestseller 'Yes, Chef' to rave reviews.
During his tenure as executive chef, he received an impressive three-star rating from the New York Times, the youngest person ever to receive such an accolade. Marcus caught the attention of the culinary world as the head chef at Aquavit. He moved up the ranks, eventually becoming the head chef and then going on to a career in television that lead to him being invited to go to Ethiopia to reconnect with his cuisine of origin.Marcus Samuelsson is an internationally acclaimed chef who has thrilled the food scene with a blend of culture and artistic excellence. Life in NYC was very different, and he had a wonderful sense of no one looking at him in a way that didn't happen in the more homogeneous Sweden. He eventually contacted the owner of a Swedish restaurant in New York City, Aquavit, and was hired there. After he realized that he was too small to become a professional soccer player, he started culinary vocational training, and worked his way into several very good restaurants, where the hours were long and the work crushing. More importantly, though, Marcus played soccer with friends and cooked with his grandmother. In 1970s Sweden, people of color were not common, and there were some racial issues. After suffering from tuberculosis, which kills his mother, in Ethiopia, Marcus and his older sister are adopted by a Swedish couple who are already fostering a biracial girl. Written with Veronica Chambers, who has done some great MG/YA books of her own, this is an interesting overview of an unusual life. Samuelsson, celebrity chef and owner of the Harlem, NYC restaurant Red Rooster, recounts his unusual path through life in this young readers' version of his adult memoir (Yes, Chef, 2012).
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