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Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book.

From Marcus Samuelsson

Most people cringe at the thought of a casserole.

From Marcus Samuelsson

I stand behind everything I've done.

From Marcus Samuelsson

I'm an American chef. I'm American. I live here. I love being here. But, of course, it is different. A black man's journey is different.

From Marcus Samuelsson

It wasn't until I came to New York and started to see the African American community, but also the Ethiopian community here, and started to eat the food, started to understand the music. I said, you know, I got to go and understand the culture. So me and my sister went.

From Marcus Samuelsson

I get so tickled when that pilot happens to be an African American because I rarely see that. The same is true when I go to find restaurants. I mean, most places I go, I kind of have some idea who the chef is, which is why I want to go.

From Marcus Samuelsson

There shouldn't be an announcement that divides our food between what tastes good and what is good for us.

From Marcus Samuelsson

If it's done really well, you don't want big portions because you think, 'That was so fulfilling. I'm not stuffed. I feel great.'

From Marcus Samuelsson

Healthy can be the new good. Eating delicious should not be sacrificed because it's healthy.

From Marcus Samuelsson

I have never seen a picture of my mother. My mother's family never owned a photograph of her, which tells you everything you need to know about where I'm from and what the world was like for the people who gave me life.

From Marcus Samuelsson

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