Event Title:

Organization:

  Literary

  Oakland

Start Date:

  6/17/2013

End Date:

  6/17/2013

Start Time:

  7:30 PM

End Time:

  9:30 PM

Event Info: 

  KPFA Radio presents
MARCUS SAMUELSSON
"Yes, Chef, A Memoir"
Hosted by Gaetano Kazuo Maida
$12 advance tickets: 800-838-3006 or independent bookstores ($15 door)

"Yes, Chef" chronicles Samuelsson's incredible journey from being orphaned at age three, and battling tuberculosis in Ethiopia to being adopted by a loving family in Sweden to finding work in some of the most demanding restaurants in Switzerland and France. Then came grueling stints on cruise ships and, ultimately, his arrival in New York City, where at Aquavit he earned a coveted three-star rating from the New York Times at the age of 24, making him the youngest chef ever to receive such an accolade. But his career of "chasing flavors" as he calls it, had only just begun. In intervening years there have been White House State dinners, personal crises, public failures, reality show triumphs, and the opening of his beloved, internationally famous Red Rooster restaurant in Harlem, where presidents and prime ministers rub elbows with jazz musicians, athletes, artists, bus drivers and nurses.

"The Red Rooster's arrival in Harlem brought with it a chef who has re-invigorated and re-imagined what it means to be American. In his famed dishes, and now in this memoir, Marcus Samuelsson tells a story that reaches past racial and national divides to the foundations of family hope, and downright good food." -President Bill Clinton

Marcus Samuelsson is a James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef and author of several cookbooks. He has appeared on The Martha Stewart Show, the TODAY Show, Iron Chef, and other food shows.

Gaetano Kazuo Maida currently serves as executive director of two Berkeley nonprofits - Buddhist Film Foundation and Tea Arts Institute. He has been involved with restaurants as principal and consultant for over 40 years. He is also an award-winning filmmaker, and has been active in book and magazine publishing on both coasts.

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Location:

  St. John's Presbyterian Church

Room:

Address:

  2727 College Avenue

Phone:

  510-967-4495

City:

  Berkeley

State/Province:

  CA