Marcus Samuelsson Quotes

At home I serve the kind of food I know the story behind.

I was born in Springfield and raised in West Springfield. My father ran a dry cleaning business and was a salesman.

The first thing I look forward to when I am in Delhi is to spend some time with my family. It's always lovely coming back here and playing in front of my own people. It's just a special place.

I was the most Australian child ever in the world, even though my home was in Africa.

I want to let everybody know that I'm from there, and country is Tuskegee. Or should I say rather, my country is Tuskegee. I was born and raised there, it's not just someplace I passed through one day.

I built RPM Italian, a restaurant I frequent as much as I can, because that is what people from Chicago do. They build things.

Boulder was my U.S. base for the better part of 20 years, and it will always have a special place in my heart.

No, I did night clubs right here in Los Angeles. My partner, Phil Erickson, put me in the business, a guy from my home town, a dear friend who we just lost a couple of months ago.

Let me put it this way: when I read, I learned the world was not as small as my house. And that everybody in my home town was not representative of the way people in the world were raised. And that was what saved me.

Each country is different. Keep an open mind, and you will able to find where the niche entry level lies - the areas where there are gaps. You have to keep an ear to the ground, and you can find a business opportunity.

Playing in New York is special to me because you are surrounded by so many communities and a strong Latin community, including the Washington Heights neighborhood. I come to Washington Heights for real Dominican food that reminds me of my hometown, and it's a great place to visit.

Boston is always going to be a second home for me.

Minneapolis has always been a very special place for me.

There's so much to London, so many different kinds of people and people are the key to life, but my favourite part? It's got to be Bow, where I come from.

I love Brooklyn so much. Everything I do I try to do in Brooklyn. Brooklyn is my home base.

I grew up here with all other Hongkongers. My love for this place has prompted me to make many personal sacrifices.

Indianapolis is home to me and my family.

If you cut me open I bleed East London.

I've always loved Harlem and its communities.

I'm not a political guy, but living here in the U.K., in Swansea, is great for me and my family.

To be really cosmopolitan a man must be at home even in his own country.

I've been living in Mumbai for a long time now, and the city has grown on me and even become my home for all practical reasons. But I'll always be a Vizag girl at heart.

Surely one advantage of traveling is that, while it removes much prejudice against foreigners and their customs, it intensifies tenfold one's appreciation of the good at home.

To travel is to discover that everybody is wrong. The philosophies, the civilizations which seem, at a distance, so superior to those current at home, all prove on a close inspection to be in their own way just as hopelessly imperfect.

Pomegranate Soup is glorious, daring and delightful. I adored the Iranian sisters, Marjan, Bahar and Layla, who are looking to build a life, start a business and find love in a place so far from home. Ireland has never been more beautiful - the perfect setting for this story filled with humor, hope and possibility.