![]() 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. ![]() 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. Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his mother, and his sister-all battling tuberculosis-walked seventy-five miles to a hospital in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Adaba. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. ![]() The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. ![]()
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