Harlem is not a playground for rich bankers and consultants. It's got students of all colors. It's got old people who keep history and tell tall tales.
Interpretation
This quote emphasizes the rich diversity and historical significance of Harlem beyond its commercialization.
In this quote, Marcus Samuelsson highlights that Harlem is not merely a place for affluent outsiders seeking recreation; it is a vibrant community filled with a diverse population, including students of various backgrounds and elderly residents who preserve the neighborhood's history through storytelling. This portrayal challenges stereotypes and underscores the cultural depth that exists in urban settings, urging a recognition of the people and their narratives that make places significant.
In practice
In a panel discussion about urban culture, this quote can highlight the importance of community voices.
I'm engaged in food on so many levels, and I love that. So my work, my craft, is around food, and writing is one aspect of it; communicating a narrative, cooking online is one aspect of it; solving the food chasm that we have in Harlem and finding a farmers market is another one, and all of them are equally exciting for me.
To become a good cook is to know yourself, and I, at this point, know myself. I know myself, and I know the cook I want to be and the cook I am striving to be.
As a chef, I always have in mind how to properly feed the public, but at times it's easy to forget that some people have trouble even getting any food, much less adequate nutrition.
I came into this environment where there was so much love, so much positive energy. I never heard my parents say, 'We have adopted kids.' The minute my sister Linda and I landed in Sweden, we were their kids.
I've been lucky to travel and work all over the world through the lens of the back of the house, and I love that monocle. I love that lens, because it's real people.
Children want to mimic adults. They notice when you choose to prepare fresh vegetables over calling in another pizza pie for dinner. They will see that food made with love and care outweighs going through the drive-through window.
A violent order is disorder; and a great disorder is an order. These two things are one.
Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.
Ignorance ... is a painless evil; so, I should think, is dirt, considering the merry faces that go along with it.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
I am not in England; I live in the Caribbean. So I am not hungover by prizes and awards because it does not happen very often.
We all know people who have been made much meaner and more irritable and more intolerable to live with by suffering: it is not right to say that all suffering perfects. It only perfects one type of person ...... the one who accepts the call of God in Christ Jesus.
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