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In Ethiopia, where I was born, all the cooks are women. When I grew up in Sweden, my mom and my grandmother did predominantly all the cooking. Then I changed to restaurant kitchens, where all of a sudden there were just more men than women, and I always thought that was weird.

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Marcus Samuelsson
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: January 25
Chef
Restaurateur
University Teacher
Addis Abeba
Kassahun Tsegie
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Sudden
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Grandmother
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Ethiopia
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