Marcus Samuelsson is the renowned chef behind many restaurants worldwide including Red Rooster Harlem and Red Rooster Overtown (Miami), Norda in Gothenburg and Oslo, MARCUS Montreal, Marcus B&P in Newark, Streetbird Las Vegas, Marcus at Baha Mar Fish + Chop House in the Bahamas, and the recently opened Hav & Mar in Chelsea (NYC). 

Samuelsson was the youngest person to ever receive a three-star review from The New York Times and has won eight James Beard Foundation Awards, including Best Chef: New York City and Outstanding Personality for No Passport Required on PBS. He is a longstanding judge on the hit Food Network show Chopped, head judge of Top Chef: Family Style and an Iron Chef on Netflix’s rebooted Iron Chef: Quest for an Iron Legend. Samuelsson also hosts and produces Seat at the Table on Audible and co-hosts This Moment podcast with Swedish rapper Timbuktu on ACAST. 

Times bestselling memoir Yes, Chef: A Memoir as well as his latest critically-acclaimed book, The Rise: Black Cooks and the Soul of American Food.