The Red Rooster Cookbook: The Story Of Food And Hustle In Harlem

"Marcus Samuelsson’s Red Rooster in Harlem aims to be more than a restaurant in the same way that Sylvia’s was more than a restaurant: He wants it to be a cultural epicenter of food, music and art; a place where locals and tourists can mingle; a venue for live music; the living heartbeat of a neighborhood. The menu, as featured in The Red Rooster Cookbook, showcases a heady fusion of Southern and global influences: fried chicken marinated in coconut milk; collard greens with spiced butter; grits made with white miso. And the book itself is a kind of scrapbook, filled with not just food but photographs, stories and the chef’s own playlists — a pulsing melange of blues, R&B, jazz and hip-hop."