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"It begins with a simple ritual: Every Saturday afternoon, a boy who loves to cook walks to his grandmother's house and helps her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. The grandmother is Swedish, a retired domestic. The boy is Ethiopian and adopted, and he will grow up to become the world-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson. This book is his love letter to food and family in all its manifestations. Marcus Samuelsson was only three years old when he, his mother, and his sister--all battling tuberculosis--walked seventy-five miles to a hospital in the Ethiopian capital city of Addis Adaba.…
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Editions
6 editions- Audiobook · English · 2012Random House Audio · 10 pages · 9780449008614
- Other · English · 2013Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9781405526517
- Other · English · 2013Random House Publishing Group · 336 pages · 9780385342612
- Other · English · 2013Little, Brown Book Group Limited · 9780751552058
- Other · English · 2012Random House · 319 pages · 9780385342605
- Other · English · 2012Penguin Random House · 9781299071254
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