Every time you use the word ‘healthy,’ you lose. The key is to make yummy, delicious food that happens to be healthy. – Marcus Samuelsson
I want people to understand my journey and to be inspired by that. You can be an immigrant, and if you work really hard, you can have your own restaurant. – Marcus Samuelsson
When I get the chance to make my favorite breakfast on the weekend, I often choose to make pancakes. – Marcus Samuelsson
I started cooking for the love of cooking, and I am going to keep cooking whether there’s a celebrity aspect to it or not. – Marcus Samuelsson
The journey into adoption started for my parents, as it does with so many families: my mother and father desperately wanted to have kids, but they couldn’t. – Marcus Samuelsson