Food Network Magazine - (12)December 2020

arcus Samuelsson’s journey to his dream

home started 20 years ago. The Chopped

judge was invited to activist and poet Maya

Angelou’s Harlem brownstone and fell in love with

the neighborhood. “She said, ‘Boy, you better come up

here and open a restaurant,’ and that was the moment

I knew I had to live in Harlem,” he says. In 2010 the

chef and his wife Maya opened Red Rooster Harlem,

and in 2013 they bought this 1890s brownstone—

which they now share with son Zion, 4. Everything

about the space reflects the couple’s roots—he was

born in Ethiopia and grew up in Sweden, and she’s

Ethiopian—and their love of intense color and

pattern. “The heart and soul of this place really

comes from three homes: Ethiopia, Sweden and

Harlem,” Marcus says. Turn the page to see more.

Marcus Samuelsson

The chef and restaurateur shows us his 1890s

New York City brownstone.

BY ERICA FINAMORE

DECEMBER 2020 ●FOOD NETWORK MAGAZINE 29

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