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

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  • @mutigerinky
    @mutigerinky 7 ปีที่แล้ว +85

    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.

  • @imari2305
    @imari2305 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    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!!

  • @zachwaksman1140
    @zachwaksman1140 6 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    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.

  • @mekidesbekele1787
    @mekidesbekele1787 3 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Marcus, so proud of you, your cooking skill is awesome
    Thank you for sharing your story

  • @michellesingleton8344
    @michellesingleton8344 6 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    Delicious food.beautiful person💕💕

  • @Cin2023
    @Cin2023 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    What a beautiful human being. ☺

  • @iflowmagazine
    @iflowmagazine 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Nice story. He is one of my favorite chefs

  • @soniapoly1
    @soniapoly1 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Great Chef with a great heart ❤

  • @gamercrewmates6044
    @gamercrewmates6044 4 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    I love marcus i love his food i lobe his personality too hes very sweet and nice

  • @crystalsherman8896
    @crystalsherman8896 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    God bless him

  • @2dasimmons
    @2dasimmons 6 ปีที่แล้ว +28

    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.

    • @samlsd9711
      @samlsd9711 6 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      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.

    • @calebogbomo3826
      @calebogbomo3826 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Nah not really they represent Ethiopia, Ethiopians and the rest of Horn of Africa are completely different from the rest of the continent

    • @samlsd9711
      @samlsd9711 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Have you been to Ethiopia?

    • @calebogbomo3826
      @calebogbomo3826 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      No ma’am but I’ve been to Uganda, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, and Kenya

    • @nigercongo518
      @nigercongo518 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      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.

  • @Edgun99a
    @Edgun99a 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    That whole chicken looked gooooooood

  • @Ladypeace12312
    @Ladypeace12312 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Woow wonderful

  • @jombo.oj03
    @jombo.oj03 6 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    what a great person :D

  • @farsanasidqredmaple2737
    @farsanasidqredmaple2737 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He s amazng

  • @marcforchrist
    @marcforchrist 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How blessed

  • @Trancegirl1966
    @Trancegirl1966 7 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Ha! Here in Australia, Red Rooster is a fast food, restaurant chain that sells delicious roast chicken...

    • @user-oe1nt4pp8n
      @user-oe1nt4pp8n 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      red rooster offers terrible chicken in australia

  • @Mike-G777
    @Mike-G777 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Beautiful story Ethiopia Restaurant coming in Yokohama Japan success Christ lets go!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @fgteevfan14th74
    @fgteevfan14th74 6 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I am from Ethiopia

    • @brennanmason1973
      @brennanmason1973 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      Abye Tensaye እዚያ ደህና ሁኑ

    • @salihibrahim562
      @salihibrahim562 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Funnel: he is an Oromo.

    • @user-fe4pw1ww7m
      @user-fe4pw1ww7m 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@salihibrahim562 where is found oromo ?ከብት

  • @berhaneyosief3049
    @berhaneyosief3049 6 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    God is good

    • @moldypizza
      @moldypizza 6 ปีที่แล้ว

      BERHANE YOSIEF Then why do children starve?

    • @jesusislord4436
      @jesusislord4436 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      moldypizza everything happens for a reason

    • @indialowman171
      @indialowman171 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      All the time .Amen

    • @Edgun99a
      @Edgun99a 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@jesusislord4436 Tell that to the baby who gets born in pain and slowly dies with even more pain

  • @gideonamare160
    @gideonamare160 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹

  • @jamessaint-surin1204
    @jamessaint-surin1204 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Came from tasty

  • @Andu_music
    @Andu_music 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "The turbulence and tragedy of Ethiopia" disgusting sentence

    • @richardasiimwe3726
      @richardasiimwe3726 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      But it is the truth.

    • @Andu_music
      @Andu_music 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@richardasiimwe3726 nope its an extremely one sided view of a country. Its like saying "the chaos and messy America" that is very negative statement.

    • @Andu_music
      @Andu_music 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@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

    • @user-eh7jh4wk3m
      @user-eh7jh4wk3m ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agree 👍

  • @davelawandra2286
    @davelawandra2286 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Gordon ramsay hated this guy, can someone tell me why? Cause He genuinely seems like a nice guy

    • @beansinnoodles3615
      @beansinnoodles3615 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      No cause his too good Gordon Ramsay who gordon Marcus samuelson

    • @Edgun99a
      @Edgun99a 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      what? Where did you here this? I want more information!

    • @almas3427
      @almas3427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Jealousy

  • @sidneyboo9704
    @sidneyboo9704 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    He never reconnected with his sister? awwww :(

    • @jamesfitzgerald8282
      @jamesfitzgerald8282 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      He grew up in Sweden with his sister :)

    • @deesee3622
      @deesee3622 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      he and his sister were both adopted

  • @dianamontesdeoca4056
    @dianamontesdeoca4056 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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

  • @ethiopiatube9203
    @ethiopiatube9203 ปีที่แล้ว

    🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹

  • @natnaelandualem5690
    @natnaelandualem5690 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Your mother is not dead she is alive in Ethiopia 🇪🇹 around 96 years old please see her eyes .#markos Samuelson

  • @dianamontesdeoca4056
    @dianamontesdeoca4056 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Modina live poultry 🙏 bronxny 10459

  • @mrmonagamous
    @mrmonagamous 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    So funny reading these comments from whites trying to anglicize this black African man, with his black African wife, and beautiful black African children 😂😂😂

  • @najaboy848
    @najaboy848 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    WHERE ARE THE FORTNITE CODES FOR V BUCKS

  • @dianamontesdeoca4056
    @dianamontesdeoca4056 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋💋For the best life chicken for the best beautiful delicious roosters Delicious ducks

  • @andresmith4488
    @andresmith4488 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The lean dugout early drop because lute pathohistologically race astride a super block. jazzy, miscreant signature

  • @kiongoziimhotep2161
    @kiongoziimhotep2161 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    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.

    • @Edgun99a
      @Edgun99a 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      ehhh? Why would she. The Swedes saved him!

    • @zico77a
      @zico77a 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      How do you even know what they talked about?😄

    • @Zelazella1
      @Zelazella1 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That white family took that boy to eroupe

    • @almas3427
      @almas3427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@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!

    • @Edgun99a
      @Edgun99a 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@almas3427 yeah because they gave him no opportunity by getting him to Sweden instead of Ethiopia...

  • @deyozionyahudim6817
    @deyozionyahudim6817 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Marcus is descended from Keturah and Yoktan, Afro Arabian, Afro Sabean.

    • @sanniyasin
      @sanniyasin 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      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.

    • @Hamza-rn2zo
      @Hamza-rn2zo 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Your typical kemet 😂

    • @edenkidanesev5657
      @edenkidanesev5657 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Deyozion Yahudim what you mean? He is from most beautiful and smart country Ethiopia. 🇪🇹🇪🇹🇪🇹

    • @deyozionyahudim6817
      @deyozionyahudim6817 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@edenkidanesev5657 You know so much😂😂😂 that is very little, The Cushites settled in East Africa from Mesopotamia they are Aboriginal Chaldean and Sabeans.

    • @deyozionyahudim6817
      @deyozionyahudim6817 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Hamza-rn2zo Im Eth'op'yah Yahud