WEBVTT 00:00.633 --> 00:01.566 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% - Hello Marcus! 00:01.566 --> 00:03.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I don't know if you remember me. 00:03.100 --> 00:05.933 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% We took a picture together at the Birch Coffee in the Bronx. 00:05.933 --> 00:07.266 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% - Oh great. 00:07.266 --> 00:08.133 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Thank you! 00:08.133 --> 00:08.966 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - I'm not stalking you. 00:08.966 --> 00:09.900 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% I live here in Austin. 00:09.900 --> 00:11.133 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - [Marcus] (laughs) Good! 00:11.133 --> 00:14.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Um my question to you is that um, 00:14.266 --> 00:17.666 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% are there any cuisines that you don't know much 00:17.666 --> 00:20.166 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% about yet that you are curious about? 00:20.166 --> 00:21.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% That you still want to explore? 00:21.666 --> 00:25.766 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - Abssolutely, so I went to Japan as a 19 year old, 00:27.033 --> 00:29.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% and I go back very often. 00:32.400 --> 00:36.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% There's like 15 different specific cuisines in Japan. 00:36.200 --> 00:37.466 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% I adore them. 00:37.466 --> 00:39.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% I don't know a lot about them. 00:39.533 --> 00:41.200 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% It's really lost in translation. 00:41.200 --> 00:44.500 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% For every trip I feel I go, I understand less. 00:44.500 --> 00:45.466 align:left position:40%,start line:89% size:50% Right? 00:45.466 --> 00:46.766 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% So it's really a magic chamber, 00:46.766 --> 00:48.666 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% but for a chef, it's amazing cause 00:48.666 --> 00:50.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% you learn and learn and learn. 00:50.666 --> 00:53.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% I'm just in the beginning of understanding 00:53.433 --> 00:56.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and learning fully Ethiopian food. 00:56.200 --> 00:58.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% My wife is teaching me that. 00:58.300 --> 01:00.166 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% It's not just how you chop. 01:00.166 --> 01:02.633 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Since food is connected to a spiritual compass, 01:02.633 --> 01:04.466 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% or can food can be tribal, 01:04.466 --> 01:05.733 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% well guess what? 01:05.733 --> 01:08.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% For an adopted kid, you always search for that. 01:08.733 --> 01:09.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - How much time did you spend in 01:09.966 --> 01:11.666 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Ethiopia before you were adopted? 01:11.666 --> 01:12.900 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - Only two years. 01:12.900 --> 01:14.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - So you have really no real memories. 01:14.866 --> 01:17.433 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Did you not have a Japanese restaurant in New York? 01:17.433 --> 01:18.833 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Ringo was the restaurant that you, 01:18.833 --> 01:19.833 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60% while you were a - Mm-hmm, yeah. 01:19.833 --> 01:21.333 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60% Chef at Ringo? - Yeah, yeah. 01:21.333 --> 01:22.533 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% But that was presumably more of 01:22.533 --> 01:24.000 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% an Americanized version of Japanese food? 01:24.000 --> 01:27.600 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - Yeah, even it was an experience that absolutely. 01:27.600 --> 01:32.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% It was really a dilute between American and Japanese food 01:32.200 --> 01:34.500 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% that I still think is fascinating. 01:34.500 --> 01:35.333 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% Yes ma'am? 01:37.100 --> 01:38.533 align:left position:30%,start line:89% size:60% - Um, hi. 01:38.533 --> 01:41.933 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% My question is about your recipe. 01:41.933 --> 01:43.566 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I think you figured out the recipe 01:43.566 --> 01:46.400 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% of the American melting pot. 01:46.400 --> 01:50.066 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% And how you take all the different cultures, 01:51.466 --> 01:55.033 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and you beautifully create the American recipe. 01:56.466 --> 02:00.200 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% So was that a journey that you learned over time? 02:03.566 --> 02:07.233 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Or was it something that you were born with? 02:09.833 --> 02:12.400 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - You know, I think it's a blend of the two. 02:12.400 --> 02:16.700 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Obviously, being adopted, having my parents are white, 02:16.700 --> 02:20.866 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% my cousins are Korean, my other cousins are French Canadian. 02:22.100 --> 02:23.366 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - You are the melting pot. 02:23.366 --> 02:25.100 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - My auntie's Jewish, 02:25.100 --> 02:27.833 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% so just get to the dinner table, 02:27.833 --> 02:30.966 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% there's a lot of different approaches. 02:30.966 --> 02:33.800 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% But, so that's what's given to me, 02:35.700 --> 02:39.900 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% but then the journey of traveling through Americas, 02:39.900 --> 02:43.800 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and looking at that I felt that the food scene, 02:45.166 --> 02:49.533 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% which from a back of a house view, is very diverse, 02:49.533 --> 02:52.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% but the representatives of it was not diverse. 02:52.200 --> 02:53.733 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% There wasn't enough women, 02:53.733 --> 02:55.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and that for me is like what are you talkin about? 02:55.466 --> 02:58.600 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% All the great people have taught me have been women. 02:58.600 --> 03:01.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% There wasn't enough voices from 03:01.033 --> 03:03.766 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% all types of people of color, right? 03:03.766 --> 03:05.000 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Whether you were Vietnamese, 03:05.000 --> 03:06.233 align:left position:30%,start line:83% size:60% whether you were Indian-American, 03:06.233 --> 03:07.533 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% whether you were African-American. 03:07.533 --> 03:10.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% How come it's that Johnathon knows noodles 03:10.700 --> 03:13.333 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% and Indian food and soul food 03:13.333 --> 03:16.266 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% and that's clearly not the case. 03:16.266 --> 03:18.500 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% So I felt well, I was always waiting, 03:18.500 --> 03:20.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% well maybe there are gonna be more voices of that, 03:20.466 --> 03:23.000 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% but through internet at least, it started, 03:23.000 --> 03:24.333 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% and you got more voices, 03:24.333 --> 03:26.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% so you have Chang you're talking about one thing, 03:26.700 --> 03:29.100 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% then you have other young chefs 03:29.100 --> 03:30.666 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% connected about something else, 03:30.666 --> 03:34.100 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% so we are getting to much, much more diverse dialog, 03:34.100 --> 03:35.866 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and it is a much better reflection 03:35.866 --> 03:39.266 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% of the Americana we live in today. 03:39.266 --> 03:41.433 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - [Brunette Audience Member] Thank you. 03:41.433 --> 03:43.733 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Steve, we have time for one more? 03:43.733 --> 03:44.666 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% They're telling you no. 03:44.666 --> 03:45.466 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Okay well I know you have... 03:45.466 --> 03:46.433 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% - He's coming up. 03:46.433 --> 03:49.033 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - This'll be really quick. 03:49.033 --> 03:51.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% I just watched Luke Cage on Netflix. 03:51.700 --> 03:53.133 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Is it you being part of the community 03:53.133 --> 03:54.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% that ended up with your restaurant 03:54.700 --> 03:58.866 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% as really the only food thing in the entire series? 03:58.866 --> 04:00.866 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Cause they go in restaurants, but they never eat. 04:00.866 --> 04:04.300 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Yeah, well they filmed that for a long time, 04:04.300 --> 04:06.066 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% and everyone really in Harlem, 04:06.066 --> 04:08.233 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% people called my restaurant the office 04:08.233 --> 04:10.700 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% because everybody just congregates there, 04:10.700 --> 04:12.366 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% and that's ground zero, 04:12.366 --> 04:14.300 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% and then they go out from different things, 04:14.300 --> 04:19.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and you know it's a privilege to have the place there, 04:19.133 --> 04:22.300 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% but half a block away from me, 04:22.300 --> 04:25.166 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% is a woman that's only been in business for 55 years. 04:25.166 --> 04:27.966 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% Her name is Mrs. Sylvia Woods. 04:27.966 --> 04:30.133 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% Down the street from me is another small, little restaurant 04:30.133 --> 04:33.100 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% that's been open for 77 years, Lenox Lounge. 04:33.100 --> 04:34.900 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% And I wouldn't be on that corner 04:34.900 --> 04:38.466 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% if I wouldn't be tucked in between those two guys. 04:38.466 --> 04:40.166 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% - But it is the case that you can't go to Harlem these days, 04:40.166 --> 04:42.966 align:left position:10%,start line:83% size:80% and have any cred without going to Red Rooster. 04:42.966 --> 04:44.133 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% Alright please give Marcus Samuelsson... 04:44.133 --> 04:45.200 align:left position:20%,start line:83% size:70% - Thank you so much for having me. 04:45.200 --> 04:46.566 align:left position:10%,start line:89% size:80% - Thank you all very much. 04:46.566 --> 04:48.233 align:left position:20%,start line:89% size:70% We'll see you again.