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Food & Drink: March 2011
Swedish Chef Marcus Samuelsson hosted fund-raising event for President Obama at his restaurant Red Rooster Harlem
Posted by Susanna at 10:15 AM, Mar 30, 2011 (Comments)
Category: Food & Drink
SWEDISH New York-based Chef Marcus Samuelsson has been seen a lot in the American media lately. In the Sunday's "What I Wore" - with the title "First Food, Then Sneakers" - he tells The New York Times (http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/27/fashion/27WHATIWORE.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=marcus%20samuelsson&st=cse) readers about what he actually wore this last week.
LAST NIGHT, March 29, President Obama held his first big 2012 campaign fund-raising event for the Democratic National Committee at Samuelsson's new restaurant Red Rooster Harlem (www.redroosterharlem.com). According to The Wall Street Journal (http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/03/29/obama-visits-n-y-for-1-5-million-haul/?KEYWORDS=red+rooster+harlem) the president is "making nice" with Wall Street, after the Wall Street community suffered from criticism by Democrats in Congress and even the president over the last couple years. Wall Street was taken to task about the behavior of the financial industry, which helped to create "The Great Recession."
AND NEXT week, on Wednesday, April 6, Samuelsson will visit House of Sweden in Washington, D.C. for "FOOD: Talk & Book Signing with Chef Marcus Samuelsson" (www.swedenabroad.com/washington). He will talk about his new book "New American Table."
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Swedish New York-based chef Marcus Samuelsson talked food on The Dylan Ratigan Show
Posted by Susanna at 1:34 PM, Mar 11, 2011 (Comments)
Category: Food & Drink
New York-based chef Marcus Samuelsson grew up in Sävedalen, Gothenburg, Sweden.
OVER THE YEARS, the Swedish New York-based chef Marcus Samuelsson (www.marcussamuelsson.com) has earned much acclaim in the United States. Known for his work at the Scandinavian restaurant Aquavit in New York, he recently opened Red Rooster (www.redroosterharlem.com) in Harlem at 310 Lenox Ave. He says that the menu at Red Rooster "reflects on the roots of American cuisine while celebrating local farmers and artisanal food makers." According to his Web site, Samuelsson, who is a resident of Harlem, has long wanted to bring a restaurant to that vibrant community.
WHILE OPENING a new restaurant, he has also found time to publish a cook-book "New American Table," assisted at a state dinner at the White House, and win Bravo's series Top Chef Masters in 2010 where he competed with about 20 world-renowned chefs.
ON THURSDAY afternoon he discussed food with Dylan Ratigan on Ratigan's MSNBC show (http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/42016522#42016522). Marcus Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia and grew up in Sävedalen, a suburban area of Gothenburg on the Swedish west coast.
