Chef Marcus Samuelsson: "Look out for the Black-owned restaurants … because we need you right now"
SalonIt feels like it has been ages since my wife and I could begin our daily routines without thinking about simple necessities like food. Samuelsson, the executive chef of Harlem's famed Red Rooster, bestselling author, and host of PBS' "No Passport Required" returned to "Salon Talks" to talk to me about his new book "The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food"–– a collection of Black culinary traditions that features 150 recipes honoring dozens of top Black chefs, writers, and activists. Although we're in COVID and a tough moment now, it's an incredible time to be a Black chef or in the culinary industry in this time because there're plethora of pathways to go. For me, it's really about, when you think about cuisines in America, Creole cooking, Southern food, it all comes out of a labor of Black people. I just didn't want Black food to be reduced to one monolithic thing, because it's obviously not who we are as people.
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