Chef Marcus Samuelsson Talks His New Series, ‘No Passport Required’
Photo Credit: Chef Marcus Samuelsson's newest show premieres on PBS July 10. No Passport Required / PBS
Skift Take
All you need to appreciate Eater’s new series on PBS is a willingness to listen. A decent appetite won’t hurt, though—not only for delicious food, but for knowledge and understanding of other, often marginalized, cultures, possibly in your own city.
“It’s just a very weird moment,” chef Marcus Samuelsson said about the current political climate. But he’s hopeful: “We’re clumsy, but we’re gonna get on the right side. We will, we always do.” His new show can only help.
No Passport Required, a six-part series premiering July 10th on PBS, visits and explores the food culture of immigrant communities in “iconic American cities” (Detroit, New Orleans, New York, Chicago, Miami, and Washington, D.C.) in an effort to address false narratives about immigrants in the U.S. that have managed to persist. In so doing, it aims to demarginalize those whose cultures are overshadowed or misunderstood, one bite at a time.
This mission resonates on a personal level with Samuelsson, who was born in Ethiopia and raised in Sweden before immigrating to the United States. The acclaimed chef and owner of
