MAKE IT MESSY

In this inspirational autobiography, world-famous chef Marcus Samuelsson tells his extraordinary story and encourages young people to embrace their mistakes and follow their dreams. Based on his highly praised adult memoir, Yes, Chef, this young adult edition includes an 8-page black-and-white family photo insert.

Marcus Samuelsson’s life and his journey to the top of the food world have been anything but typical. Orphaned in Ethiopia, he was adopted by a loving couple in Sweden, where his new grandmother taught him to cook and inspired in him a lifelong passion for food. In time, that passion would lead him to train and cook in some of the finest, most demanding kitchens in Europe. Samuelsson’s talent and ambition eventually led him to fulfill his dream of opening his own restaurant in New York City: Red Rooster Harlem, a highly acclaimed, multicultural dining room, where presidents rub elbows with jazz musicians, aspiring artists, and bus drivers. A place where anyone can feel at home. Veronica Chambers is a former editor at The New York Times Magazine and Premiere, and is currently a contributing editor at Glamour. She attended Simon’s Rock College at age sixteen and was named one of Glamour magazine’s Top Ten College Women of 1990. The co-author, with John Singleton, of Poetic Justice: Filmmaking South Central Style and a frequent contributor to Essence, Seventeen, and The New York Times Book Review, Chambers has held a Freedom Forum Fellowship at Columbia University. She lives in Brooklyn.