swedish americans

Every Saturday afternoon during his childhood, Marcus Samuelsson would walk to his grandmother's house and help her prepare a roast chicken for dinner. It was the beginning of a career as he journeyed from his grandmother's kitchen to New York City as an adult to become an acclaimed chef at the age of twenty-four at Aquavit, his three-star restaurant. And then he opened Red Rooster in Harlem, fulfilling his dream of creating a diverse, multiracial dining experience. Marcus Samuelsson, adopted from Ethiopia, raised in Sweden, and living in New York City, knows that food can bridge culture gaps in surprising ways.

World-renowned chef Marcus Samuelsson chronicles his life, covering his birth in Ethiopia, his adoption into a Swedish family at age three, learning to cook from his Swedish grandmother, working at the most demanding and cutthroat restaurants in Switzerland and France, and the opening of the beloved Red Rooster restaurant in Harlem.

When sixteen-year-old Louisa moves from North Carolina to her father's childhood home in Pennsylvania, a phone call from the grave brings a buried family secret to life.

Kate, Anders, and Erik try to solve the mystery of the stolen creamery checks.

Kate and Anders try to follow the guidance of God when his grandparents travel from Sweden to Wisconsin and Grandma vanishes under mysterious circumstances.

Kate plans a birthday party for her stepbrother Anders and gets involved in the mysterious disappearance of items from the Erickson household.

At the end of the nineteenth century, Swedish-Americans Klondy and her mother travel from South Dakota to Alaska to live with Klondy's father, a gold-miner who left for the mines when she was just a baby. Based on events in the life of Klondy Nelson.

When Erik Sandahl, who owes Uncle Olav money and promised to help Kirsten's family at harvest time, disappears, everyone seems to think he has run out on his promises except Kirsten.