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The Cardigans

By mahir | February 1, 2011

This week’s music and food is one of my favorite bands The Cardigans. They’re a Swedish-Danish band from the 90′s. The lead singer Nina Persson currently lives in Harlem and is an amazing person. Enjoy! Read More

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Prince

By mahir | January 11, 2011

Music & Food

This week’s Music & Food Playlist is coming to you with style and attitude.  Enjoy these songs from Prince: a man with many names and stages over the years, who has made great music throughout. Read More

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Diverse Musical Taste

By mahir | January 4, 2011

To appreciate bitterness in food, it takes a lot of trial and error in tasting to help get you there. It’s the same with shaping your musical taste. Mine has always been diverse and was shaped a lot by musicians who look in a new direction, the same thing I’m trying to do with Red Rooster.

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Fistful Of Mercy

By mahir | December 28, 2010

This week I’ve chosen to share the beautiful music of Fistful Of Mercy for my Music and Food playlist. What do you think of their music?

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Ali Farka Toure

By mahir | December 21, 2010

Music and Food: Ali Farka Toure

This week’s music and food is the incredible Malian singer Ali Farka Toure. His music is often described as a a point of intersection of traditional Malian music and American blues. Toure was ranked number 76 on Rolling Stone‘s list of “The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time”.

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Music & Food: Timbuktu

By mahir | December 14, 2010

Timbuktu

This week’s Music and Food, I’ve chosen to listen to my very good friend Jason Diakite known as Timbuktu in the music world.

I’ve taken the description from his Facebook Fan Page because I couldn’t have described it better:

“In Sweden, Timbuktu is the MC who even your grandparents have heard of. No, they probably aren’t rocking his album at their Tuesday dance class, but they know he exists. And in a country where the generational divide seems to expand daily, Read More

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Pink Martini

By mahir | December 7, 2010

Pink Martini is a 12-member orchestra from Portland, Oregon. They have been described as “Music of the world without being world music.” “If the United Nations had a house band in 1962 hopefully Pink Martini would be that band.”
Enjoy the wonderful tunes of Pink Martini when cooking today!

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Come hang with Marcus Samuelsson and Chef Sang Yoon on June 19th at 8pm ET on Google+.  Marcus and Chef Yoon will teach us how to make the “Yes, Chef“ inspired Berbere spiced Leg of Lamb with mint yogurt and pickled cucumbers.

Want a chance to join us LIVE on air? My favorite spice to cook with is berbere, tell me yours in the comments here and use the hashtag #YesChef for a chance to join us.

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