Marcus Samuelsson has narrated 3 audiobooks on Listento.it by 2 authors, with an average listener rating of 5★ across 6 ratings. The most-rated is Yes, Chef.
Yes, Chef
Summary
Audie Award Nominee, Narration by the Author or Authors, 2013 It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother’s house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his mother, and his sister - all battling tuberculosis - walked 75 miles to a hospital in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Adaba. Tragically, his mother succumbed to the disease shortly after she arrived, but Marcus and his sister recovered, and one year later they were welcomed into a loving middle-class white family in Göteborg, Sweden. It was there that Marcus’s new grandmother, Helga, sparked in him a lifelong passion for food and cooking with her pan-fried herring, her freshly baked bread, and her signature roast chicken. From a very early age, there was little question what Marcus was going to be when he grew up. Yes, Chef chronicles Marcus Samuelsson’s remarkable journey from Helga’s humble kitchen to some of the most demanding and cutthroat restaurants in Switzerland and France, from his grueling stints on cruise ships to his arrival in New York City, where his outsize talent and ambition finally come together at Aquavit, earning him a coveted New York Times three-star rating at the age of 24. But Samuelsson’s career of “chasing flavors”, as he calls it, had only just begun - in the intervening years, there have been White House state dinners, career crises, reality show triumphs, and, most importantly, the opening of the beloved Red Rooster in Harlem. At Red Rooster, Samuelsson has fufilled his dream of creating a truly diverse, multiracial dining room - a place where presidents and prime ministers rub elbows with jazz musicians, aspiring artists, bus drivers, and nurses. It is a place where an orphan from Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, living in America, can feel at home. With disarming honesty and intimacy, Samuelsson also opens up about his failures - the price of ambition, in human terms - and recounts his emotional journey, as a grown man, to meet the father he never knew. Yes, Chef is a tale of personal discovery, unshakable determination, and the passionate, playful pursuit of flavors - one man’s struggle to find a place for himself in the kitchen, and in the world.
©2012 Marcus Samuelsson (P)2012 Random House Audio
Our Harlem
Summary
Make an audio pilgrimage to Harlem with Ethiopian and Swedish chef, TV personality, and restaurateur Marcus Samuelsson, and get to know the food, history, music, and - most importantly - the people of an iconic neighborhood that Marcus knows as his home and the home of his Red Rooster restaurant. Special guests join Marcus each day of the week to cook, sip cocktails, and make their Harlem our Harlem, including Melba Wilson, Jelani Cobb, Bevy Smith, and Kevin Young, for starters. For Wednesday, with writer Jelani Cobb, Marcus will recreate the short ribs he made for President Obama’s fundraiser at the Red Rooster and discuss the significance of the first African American President. With food historian Jessica Harris, Marcus will discover the African and Southern roots of his ingredients. He’ll make fried chicken with Harlem’s very own Charles Gabriel and visit La Marqueta with Spanish Harlem native Aurora Flores. You’ll learn about Harlem’s amazing history, diversity, and current vibrant life and the institutions that are the pillars of the neighborhood - the Apollo Theater, the Studio Museum, and the Schomburg Center. Writers Isabel Wilkerson and Nicholas Lehmann explain the Great Migration from the South that brought mac and greens, new voters, and amazing creative talent to Harlem. And Dapper Dan talks about Harlem style. And like Red Rooster itself, music provides a foundation for each day - from El Barrio Night’s Latin rhythms to Sunday’s Teenage Gospel Choir. As an added bonus for Audible listeners, with purchase you’ll receive recipes from The Red Rooster Cookbook that are featured in Our Harlem. PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.
©2019 Marcus Samuelsson Group LLC (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.
Basking in Bordeaux from the Left Bank
Summary
Stylish, trend-setting, and bold, Vine Talk's host Stanley Tucci invites a panel of celebrity friends to join him for engaging conversation and blind taste-tests from different selections of world famous wineries each week. Regardless of personal expertise, all can enjoy the intriguing dialogue from each diverse panel.
©2013 Vine Talk (P)2013 Hachette Audio