On January 20, Samuelsson was at South Coast Plaza Home Store to perform a cooking demo adjacent to Marc Burger and to publicize his latest cookbook, New American Table. Since then, he’s earned two James Beard awards and launched several additional restaurant concepts, including C-House fish and chophouse in Chicago, Streetfood in Stockholm and two branches of Marc Burger. In his early twenties, he scored a coveted three-star review from The New York Times. Samuelsson trained at the Culinary Institute in Gothenburg and worked in Europe before vaulting on to the Manhattan dining scene at a high-end Swedish restaurant called Aquavit. Lennart and Ann Marie Samuelsson adopted young Marcus and his sister, and they moved to Gothenburg, Sweden. Marcus Samuelsson was born in Ethiopia and lost both parents to tuberculosis. His inspirational story has become legendary in the culinary community.
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