"I have never seen a picture of my mother," he writes in a chapter that moved this reader to tears. This is where his remarkable tale begins in "Yes, Chef: A Memoir." What does matter is that Samuelsson's mother died of tuberculosis in Ethiopia while carrying her children - Marcus, 2, and his 4-year-old sister, who were also sick - under a hot sun to a hospital 75 miles away. Oh, and there was that cooking gig for President Obama's state dinner at age 39.īut those are just numbers that, for most Scandinavians, don't mean much in the real world once the klieg lights are off and the reporter's notebooks are packed away. He was 28 when the James Beard Foundation named him Rising Star Chef of the Year, and 33 when the foundation named him Best Chef: NYC. Marcus Samuelsson was 24 when the New York Times gave his restaurant three stars and 27 when he arrived in Minneapolis to open the upscale Aquavit in the IDS Center.
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