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Eater's Digest

From the 92Y: Amanda Interviews Chef Marcus Samuelsson

Eater's Digest

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News, Food, Comedy, Arts, News Commentary, Improv

4.4902 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

As New York City continues to navigate its recent reopening, restaurateurs, chefs, and diners alike are wondering what the new normal looks like. How do we revive New York’s vibrant dining culture? In this exclusive 92nd Street Y conversation, Chef Marcus Samuelsson, whose Harlem restaurant Red Rooster remained open to first responders and locals throughout New York on Pause, speaks with Eater editor-in-chief Amanda Kludt about where we go from here. Hosts: Amanda Kludt (@kludt), Editor in Chief, Eater Daniel Geneen (@danielgeneen), Producer, Eater More to explore: Check out more great reporting from the Eater newsroom. Subscribe to Amanda’s weekly newsletter here. Follow Us: Eater.com Facebok.com/Eater YouTube.com/Eater @eater on Twitter and Instagram Get in Touch: [email protected] About Eater: Eater obsessively covers the world through the lens of food, telling stories via audio, television, digital video, and publications in 24 cities across the US and UK. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Once upon a time, Disney was a motion picture studio in a sea of Hollywood studios doing something nobody else was doing.

0:09.0

Disney's business is memory making. Disney's business is tradition.

0:15.0

But here's the thing about kingdoms.

0:17.0

They don't last forever.

0:18.0

To survive, Disney had to grow.

0:21.0

But has that tremendous growth eroded what made Disney, Disney.

0:24.3

And I don't know the world cares that this is a Disney movie anymore. I'm Joe

0:29.6

Italian. I'm hosting Land of the Giants, the Disney Telepa, from Bulcher on the Box Media Podcast Network.

0:35.0

Follow Land of the eater. digest a show about all things food and dining. This is Amanda Clute, editor and chief of

0:54.0

Peter. And today on the show we are going to rebroadcast an interview I did with

1:00.8

the chef and restaurateur Marcus Samuelson for the 92nd Street

1:04.5

Y. We recorded it earlier in the summer but I think it is still incredibly

1:08.6

relevant right now. Daniel and I are taking these dog days of summer off of the show to get our heads back in the game for September.

1:20.0

So we hope you enjoy this interview, super interesting conversation, and we will be back after Labor Day. Welcome Marcus.

1:37.0

Thank you very much.

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Mind up for having you.

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Of course.

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So I want to start by just laying the groundwork and giving context for the audience as to what your restaurant portfolio looks like and how many employees you have and the changes you had to make in March right and the city started shutting down.

1:56.0

Well first I want to say thank you to and the second street why.

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I've had a great pleasure to be on stage both uptown and downtown

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and I remember particularly one time I did it with Anthony Bourden uptown and it also happened to be one of the nights that I got three stars from New York time. So I was very nervous and Tony was met with me the whole time.

2:24.0

So I just remember that. I was laughing at that.

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