Yes, chef! Marcus Samuelsson says everyone needs these 10 cookbooks and utensils
Marcus Samuelsson approaches life with a big appetite: The eight-time James Beard Award-winning chef is behind renowned restaurants like Red Rooster, Marcus, Streetbird and Vibe BBQ, many of which have locations around the world. He also has served as a long-standing judge on the hit Food Network show Chopped and appeared on Bravo's Top Chef: Family Style and Netflix's Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend.
As if that doesn't keep him busy enough, Marcus has written two books and just teamed up with West Elm on a capsule collection of dishes, furniture and even light fixtures. Oh, and did we mention that he also recently became one of Oxo's newest chefs in residence? Somehow, between it all, he carved out some time to talk to us about his kitchen essentials — including the cookbooks he looks to for inspiration and the one pantry item he never goes without.
Keep reading to learn about Marcus's favorite finds, and if you're curious how other star chefs stock their kitchens, check out our shopping column with his fellow Food Network stars Andrew Zimmern, Geoffrey Zakarian and Sunny Anderson.
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She of course must follow him, kicking off a series of Don Quixote-style adventures with wild, wacky and terrifying characters. Letting her curiosity guide her, she encounters a tea party hosted by a tap-dancing Mad Hatter (Edson Barbosa) and a slithering Cheshire Cat (whose dismantlement is made possible by a corps of dancer-puppeteers). Indeed, 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland' will resonate strongly with those who adore 'Alice' — so much so that Joffrey extended the production to three weekends before it opened. In any case, exploiting its usefulness as a ballet was far overdue. There is much within Wheeldon's zany world for everyone to admire. Very small children may not appreciate some scarier moments, most notably a scene at the Duchess' house, in which viewers quite literally see how the sausage gets made. The brutish Duchess (Dylan Gutierrez) and her ax-wielding cook (Lucia Connolly) contribute some of the night's most, um, salient imagery. 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