Yes, Chef (42 page)

During the summer in Gburg, pickup games of soccer were a daily event.
From top left:
Peter, Klaus, Marcus, and Mats (1983)
Collection of the author

Marcus, age thirteen, shows off his new bicycle (1983)
Collection of the author

Marcus preps for the dinner shift in the kitchen of Aquavit, in the historic townhouse building on 54th Street (1999)
Paul Brissman

Marcus, with film crew in tow, does some shopping in his favorite food neighborhood, New York City’s Chinatown (2000)
Paul Brissman

The last tables of the night finish their meals as Marcus takes a well-earned break in Aquavit’s dining room (1998)
Paul Brissman

Marcus’s adoptive mother, Anne Marie, and natural father, Tsegie, meet for the first time in Abragodana, Tsegie’s village in Ethiopia (2009)
Collection of the author

Marcus
(second from left)
with his father, half sisters, and mother, Anne Marie (2009)
Collection of the author

Ashou, Marcus’s second-youngest half sister, outside her father’s house in Abragodana (2009)
Collection of the author

Anne Marie and Tsegie stand with Marcus and his new wife, Maya, at the altar (2009)
Collection of the author

Maya and Marcus just before their wedding ceremony (2009)
Collection of the author

Michelle Obama, Marcus, and local schoolkids harvest vegetables from the White House organic gardens as part of the First Lady’s Let’s Move! program (2011)
Eddie Gehman Kohan for
ObamaFoodorama.blogspot.com

Marcus brings a group of students from the local YMCA over to his home in Harlem for an impromptu cooking class (2010)
Paul Brissman

Students from a local school in Harlem stop by the Rooster for lunch (2011)
Eden Fesehaye