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Marcus Samuelsson: On Becoming A Top Chef
A longer version of this interview was originally broadcast on June 28, 2012.
Marcus Samuelsson owns two restaurants in New York City and two restaurants in Sweden. He’s cooked for President Obama and prime ministers, served as a judge on Top Chef and Chopped, and recently competed against 21 other chefs on Top Chef Masters. (He won.) He’s the youngest chef ever to receive two three-star...
Menbere Aklilu Named Commencement Speaker at Holy Names University
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Menbere Aklilu (Photo: salutemarinabay.com)
Menbere Aklilu, East Bay community leader, recipient of 2009’s Contra Costa Woman-Owned Business of the Year Award, and owner of Salute e Vita Ristorante in Richmond, Calif., will deliver the keynote address at Holy Names University’s (HNU) 87th commencement on Saturday, May 18.
Born in Ethiopia, Aklilu has demonstrated resilience, determination,...
Ethiopian café celebrates Senators and all that is Canadian
Lily Kassahoun, a former Ottawa resident and ByWard Market restaurant manager who recently opened a restaurant in Addis Ababa called Oh Canada, whose Canuck theme runs throughout the space and where hockey is front and centre. (Photo: ottawacitizen.com)
Former Ottawa resident’s restaurant becomes hockey central in Addis Ababa.
OTTAWA, Canada — As the Senators face off against the Canadiens in Game...
Washington’s craze for Ethiopian cuisine
Washington D.C. - Ethiopian cuisine in Washington is undergoing a major transformation into the mainstream of food culture, CCTV reports.
People living and working in and around Washington DC have been introduced to this diverse cuisine because the city has the largest Ethiopian community in the country.
The report indicates that Ethiopian restaurants with different Ethiopian foods are penetrating...
Meatless Mondays: Becky and Kedist Tsadik, A Modern Ethiopian Supper Club + A Yellow Split Pea Recipe
Yellow Split Peas (Photo: Alyssa Tembrina Photography)
Los Angeles, California - Becky and Kedist Tsadik’s Ethiopian supper club Bereket began as a class assignment. In her second year of business school at UCLA, Kedist, 29, drew up plans for an upscale Ethiopian restaurant and entered the campus international food festival for empirical research. Her food kiosk ended up winning the best food...
Oh Canada Cafe & Restaurant
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Foreign cuisine is abundant in the Bole area of Addis Abeba. On the long stretch of road by the European Union offices on Cape Verde Street, all the way up to the area known as “Chechnya” on Mickey Leland Street, restaurants of Italian, Sudanese Yemeni and, of course, Ethiopian origin, are plentiful. Joining their ranks is a new eatery, from a country that is usually...
Ethiopian flavors spice up Shabelle Grocery and Restaurant in Minneapolis
Shabelle Grocery (Photo:tcdailyplanet.net)
BY STEPHANIE FOX, GLOBAL GROCERIES
February 11, 2013
Abdur Omer, co-owner of Shabelle, the little Ethiopian grocery store and restaurant on Franklin Avenue, opened his store 13 years ago after moving to Minnesota to be near friends. He first moved to Washington, D.C. from Ethiopia in the 1980s and it was there, just a couple of years before he arrived,...
Ethiopian eatery opens in Allentown
At Mariam’s Ethiopian restaurant co-owner Beleteshachew Mulata sits with several of her culinary creations. (DONNA FISHER /
By Jodi Duckett, The Morning Call
Allentown, PA – The exotic flavors of Ethiopia got an official Allentown welcome Feb. 7. The lively grand opening of Mariam’s Restaurant, with guests Mayor Ed Pawlowski and city officials, community leaders and a crowd of supporters,...
Marcus Samuelsson Cooks in L.A. at Post & Beam
Marcus Samuelsson
Marcus Samuelsson, former “Top Chef Masters” contestant and chef at New York’s Red Rooster in Harlem, will be coming over to the best coast to cook at Govind Armstrong’s Baldwin Hills restaurant, Post & Beam.
Samuelsson’s hopes to bring a taste of Harlem to Baldwin Hills with the meal, which is also meant to commemorate Black History Month. The...
Wat’s New at Petit Valentien
Petit Valentien (Photo: independent.com)
Sekkardis Alemu Serves Ethiopian Weekend Lunch
Serkaddis Alemu, despite having lived in the U.S. for nearly two decades, remains Ethiopian at heart. She admits, “If you sit with any Ethiopian for long, don’t be surprised if the discussion ends up about food. To know the food is to know the people.” She’s helping Santa Barbara know both the food and...
