Chef Marcus Samuelsson: I Got Nervous Before I Cooked For President Obama | TODAY
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- Award-winning chef Marcus Samuelsson has had a lot of success in the culinary world, but his life began with hardships in Ethiopia. In this week’s Sunday Sitdown, the 47-year-old restaurateur tells Willie Geist about his upbringing in a diverse family, having fish thrown in his face while he honed his culinary skills in Europe, and what his mother told him before he was set to cook for President Obama.
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Chef Marcus Samuelsson: I Got Nervous Before I Cooked For President Obama | TODAY
I really like Marcus. He is such a positive cheerleader for the contestants on Chopped. He truly seems proud and excited when they do well. If I ever make a trip to NYC, I'm going to put the Red Rooster on my "must-do" list.
I absolutely adore Marcus!! I met him on the #2 train in 2016; I couldn't believe it!! On the same day his cookbook was being released and he took a pic with me that I cherish!! My daughters and I ate at Red Rooster and the food was amazing!! Will be going back very soon!!
I ate at Aquavit back when he was there. I must’ve been about 15 then, but it was one of the best meals I’ve ever had.
Delicious food.beautiful person💕💕
Marcus, so proud of you, your cooking skill is awesome
Thank you for sharing your story
What a beautiful human being. ☺
Nice story. He is one of my favorite chefs
Great Chef with a great heart ❤
I love marcus i love his food i lobe his personality too hes very sweet and nice
The Ethiopians have such a varied LOOK. I've met the ones with very high-bridged noses that are narrow and the low-bridged with wide nostrils and all the ones in between. Truly Ethiopia represents AFRICA.
You should go to Ethiopia and see it yourself. You'll love the country, the hospitality, their warm hearts and open doors to everyone attitude will leave you in awe. I'm Ethiopian too, it's a nice plate to visit to find yourself.
Nah not really they represent Ethiopia, Ethiopians and the rest of Horn of Africa are completely different from the rest of the continent
Have you been to Ethiopia?
No ma’am but I’ve been to Uganda, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Kenya
Ethiopians come in all kinds of different looks I lived there for a year and seen tribes that looked like all different types of Africans. Ethiopians are not just the Oromo Tigre and Amhara tribes. These are what most foreigners see so they think all Ethiopians look that way. The Gambella, Omo and many other tribes look like tribes from Central and even west Africa. This is why it is important to travel. Even in West Africa all the tribes don't look the same. Africa is to diverse for ignorant people to understand. There are like 80 tribes in Ethiopia you are a fool if you think they all look like the Ethiopians you are us to seeing in Western countries. The tribes you are use to seeing have a large population and are the ones running the country. Similarly black Americans are a small percentage of the American population and are not usually not running the country. Yet we still see them as Americans who look different from other Americans.
God bless him
How blessed
Woow wonderful
what a great person :D
That whole chicken looked gooooooood
Ha! Here in Australia, Red Rooster is a fast food, restaurant chain that sells delicious roast chicken...
red rooster offers terrible chicken in australia
He s amazng
I am from Ethiopia
Abye Tensaye እዚያ ደህና ሁኑ
@Funnel: he is an Oromo.
@@salihibrahim562 where is found oromo ?ከብት
Beautiful story Ethiopia Restaurant coming in Yokohama Japan success Christ lets go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Came from tasty
God is good
BERHANE YOSIEF Then why do children starve?
moldypizza everything happens for a reason
All the time .Amen
@@jesusislord4436 Tell that to the baby who gets born in pain and slowly dies with even more pain
Gordon ramsay hated this guy, can someone tell me why? Cause He genuinely seems like a nice guy
No cause his too good Gordon Ramsay who gordon Marcus samuelson
what? Where did you here this? I want more information!
Jealousy
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"The turbulence and tragedy of Ethiopia" disgusting sentence
But it is the truth.
@@richardasiimwe3726 nope its an extremely one sided view of a country. Its like saying "the chaos and messy America" that is very negative statement.
@@richardasiimwe3726 That same country has cities, businesses, high rise apartments, malls, people thriving living life. He was born in a very remote village in Ethiopia. Again this coverage on the country is very false. The western coverage always shows negative and not positive of african countries. Its like if we had a channel that only showed poor usa trailer parks, Detroit hoods and told everyone that this is all of America it's nothing but poor hoods, all the filth of America rather than showing LA or nyc
Agree 👍
He never reconnected with his sister? awwww :(
He grew up in Sweden with his sister :)
he and his sister were both adopted
My beautiful thing coming from Dominican republic my beautiful premonition was I grew up with a red rooster I grew up with roosters I grew up with a cold I grew up with goats I grew up with pigs but one of the most beautiful thing bringing my culture back was bringing my aunt first time in New York she came from Dominican republic with a visa and she said I had the best time listening to live music the best time I had in red rooster when the red rooster sings is absolutely beautiful we were able to shut down our beautiful gift congregation thank you so much for my beautiful beautiful beautiful family from TD Bank from Ruben Diaz from Eric Adams and my beautiful beautiful gift gift gift it love Lord Jesus Wilke Elizabeth Vanessa it was absolutely a beautiful experience and my beautiful family the NYPDCriminal in supreme judges I was able to provide my beautiful grandmother she came in so happy to represent the red rooster we went to a live Alive chicken place where we so roosters dogs and everything and it was absolutely the beautiful experience I was coming from my beautiful beautiful culture it was the best experience I wonder why I had a beautiful premonition with you this morning and I asked myself you’re exotic guys who you are but when I saw the red rooster I understand exactly what I pray was coming from
Your mother is not dead she is alive in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 around 96 years old please see her eyes .#markos Samuelson
So funny reading these comments from whites trying to anglicize this black African man, with his black African wife, and beautiful black African children 😂😂😂
lies! no such comments
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Modina live poultry 🙏 bronxny 10459
WHERE ARE THE FORTNITE CODES FOR V BUCKS
Marcus is smart. Why did adopted mom say You're a Samuelsson and not "Remember your mother died to save you in Ethiopia" Don't forget your roots in Africa.
ehhh? Why would she. The Swedes saved him!
How do you even know what they talked about?😄
That white family took that boy to eroupe
@@Edgun99a They didn’t save him, they adopted him and he gave them the opportunity to be parents. His birth mother saved them by walking 2 days to reach a hospital!
@@almas3427 yeah because they gave him no opportunity by getting him to Sweden instead of Ethiopia...
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💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋For the best life chicken for the best beautiful delicious roosters Delicious ducks
Marcus is descended from Keturah and Yoktan, Afro Arabian, Afro Sabean.
Deyozion Yahudim dude WTF you talking about. There are no races or tribes by those names in Ethiopia. He is Ethiopian and if you want to be specific (tribal) about it he is a Habesha from an ethnic group called Oromo.
Your typical kemet 😂
Deyozion Yahudim what you mean? He is from most beautiful and smart country Ethiopia. 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹
@@edenkidanesev5657 You know so much😂😂😂 that is very little, The Cushites settled in East Africa from Mesopotamia they are Aboriginal Chaldean and Sabeans.
@@Hamza-rn2zo Im Eth'op'yah Yahud