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Join chef Marcus Samuelsson on an inspiring journey across the U.S. to explore and celebrate the wide-ranging diversity of immigrant traditions and cuisine woven into American food and culture.

Boston

54m 41s

Host Marcus Samuelsson goes to the greater Boston area to learn more about Portuguese, Brazilian, and Cape Verdean food traditions. Marcus eats Portuguese chowder with halibut on a fishing boat, visits a Portuguese marketplace where he tries plenty of bacalhau, and later, in a home kitchen, he makes a bacalhau gratin with cheese and potatoes.

Episodes

  • Boston: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Boston

    S2 E6 - 54m 41s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson goes to the greater Boston area to learn more about Portuguese, Brazilian, and Cape Verdean food traditions. Marcus eats Portuguese chowder with halibut on a fishing boat, visits a Portuguese marketplace where he tries plenty of bacalhau, and later, in a home kitchen, he makes a bacalhau gratin with cheese and potatoes.

  • Las Vegas: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Las Vegas

    S2 E5 - 52m 4s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson visits Las Vegas to learn more about the city’s long-standing Chinese community and their food traditions. He makes hand-pulled noodles and Peking duck, eats regional favorites from xiao long bar and beef noodle soup to cumin lamb and fish braised in clay pots.

  • Philadelphia: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Philadelphia

    S2 E4 - 54m 41s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson heads to Philadelphia, where he meets new friends and old, and learns more about the city’s Italian food scene. Italian-Americans have been driving food culture in the U.S. for over a century, and Philadelphia is one of the original hubs for both classic and modern Italian cuisine.

  • Houston: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Houston

    S2 E3 - 54m 41s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson visits Houston to learn more about food and community in the Nigerian and greater West African diaspora. Centered around the large Nigerian population but also focused on Senegalese, Ghanaian, and other West African cultures, the episode explores how West African immigrants preserve recipes and food traditions and re-contextualize them in the Houston dining scene.

  • Los Angeles: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Los Angeles

    S2 E2 - 54m 33s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson arrives in sunny Los Angeles to meet with Armenians influencing the city's food scene. Armenian food is diaspora food — the community is widespread, building homes in countries like Turkey and Syria following the Armenian Genocide.

  • Seattle: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Seattle

    S2 E1 - 54m 41s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson goes to Seattle, where he spends time with immigrant and second-generation Filipinos who are taking charge of their city's food scene. As Filipino food gains more national, mainstream recognition, members of the community are working to tell the story on their own terms.

Extras + Features

  • Preview: Boston: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Preview: Boston

    S2 E6 - 30s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson goes to the greater Boston area to learn more about Portuguese, Brazilian, and Cape Verdean food traditions. Marcus eats Portuguese chowder with halibut on a fishing boat, visits a Portuguese marketplace where he tries plenty of bacalhau, and later, in a home kitchen, he makes a bacalhau gratin with cheese and potatoes.

  • Preview: Las Vegas: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Preview: Las Vegas

    S2 E5 - 30s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson visits Las Vegas to learn more about the city’s long-standing Chinese community and their food traditions. He makes hand-pulled noodles and Peking duck, eats regional favorites from xiao long bar and beef noodle soup to cumin lamb and fish braised in clay pots.

  • Preview: Philadelphia: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Preview: Philadelphia

    S2 E4 - 30s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson heads to Philadelphia, where he meets new friends and old, and learns more about the city’s Italian food scene. Italian-Americans have been driving food culture in the U.S. for over a century, and Philadelphia is one of the original hubs for both classic and modern Italian cuisine.

  • Preview: Houston: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Preview: Houston

    S2 E3 - 30s

    Host Marcus Samuelsson visits Houston to learn more about food and community in the Nigerian and greater West African diaspora. Centered around the large Nigerian population but also focused on Senegalese, Ghanaian, and other West African cultures, the episode explores how West African immigrants preserve recipes and food traditions and re-contextualize them in the Houston dining scene.

  • Meet Aunt Leila at Oriental Mart: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Meet Aunt Leila at Oriental Mart

    S2 E1 - 1m 43s

    "Tita" Leila, a leader in Seattle's Filipino food scene, shows Marcus the ropes at Oriental Mart, where she's
    worked for 37 years. Marcus describes the unique notes of sourness present in many Filipino dishes.

  • Do You Know the History of Filipino Immigration?: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Do You Know the History of Filipino Immigration?

    S2 E1 - 2m 44s

    After a generous helping of comfort food at Ludi's, we meet Dorothy Cordova, co-founder and executive
    director of the Filipino-American National Historical Society, for a lesson on the history of Filipino
    immigration to the U.S.

  • Sara Porkalob on the Origin of Seattle's Coalition Activism: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Sara Porkalob on the Origin of Seattle's Coalition Activism

    S2 E1 - 2m 51s

    Playwright Sara Porkalob tells Marcus about her quirky grandmother, her upcoming theater series, and the
    origins of coalition activism in Seattle, forged in the wake of racist miscegenation laws targeting African-
    Americans and Filipino-Americans people in the 1930's.

  • Candida Rosa at Izzy's Diner: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Candida Rosa at Izzy's Diner

    S2 E6 - 2m 5s

    On a cold day in New Bedford, Massachusetts, singer Candida Rosa talks with Marcus about her roots. She is from Cape Verde: a group of islands 400 miles off the western coast of Africa, a crossroads of early exploration of the Atlantic, and supposedly home to the first slave trading post.

  • Capoeira and pastries with Mestre Chuvisquinho: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Capoeira and pastries with Mestre Chuvisquinho

    S2 E6 - 2m 12s

    Mestre Chuvisquinho, a master capoeirista from Sao Paulo, Brazil, teaches one of his capoeira classes. Capoeira is a combination of music, dance, and martial arts, originally used by African slaves for secret intercommunication. Later, Mestre and Marcus eat at Pastelaria, a cafe specializing mostly in Brazilian street food.

  • The Bacalhau Room at Portugalia Marketplace: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    The Bacalhau Room at Portugalia Marketplace

    S2 E6 - 2m 49s

    Father and son Fernando and Michael Benevides give Marcus a tour of their storeroom for bacalhau, an ageless Portuguese take on salt cod that involves air drying, freezing, and finally thawing, which can then be used in myriad Portuguese dishes, from broth stock to savory pastry filling.

  • Capoeira in the Context of the Brazilian Slave Trade: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Capoeira in the Context of the Brazilian Slave Trade

    S2 E6 - 3m 9s

    Capoeira is a combination of music, dance, and martial arts, originally used by African slaves for secret intercommunication. Mestre Chuvisquinho, a master capoeirista, talks to Marcus about growing up practicing capoiera in his community in Sao Paulo, Brazil, and how it helped him focus his energies. Marcus touches on the inextricable influence of the slave trade on Brazilian culture.

  • Professor Emeritus Sue Fawn Chung: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Professor Emeritus Sue Fawn Chung

    S2 E5 - 1m 50s

    Author and UNLV Professor Emeritus in History Sue Fawn Chung discusses the incentives that brought thousands of Chinese immigrants to the U.S. in the 19th and 20th centuries, including the gold rush and the building of the railroads. Marcus explains the strange American expectation for monolithic Chinese food experiences despite the many differences between many types of Chinese cuisines.

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