This week on The Library, Marcus Samuelsson. He's an owner of two restaurants in New York City, a judge on Top Chef and Chopped and has cooked for President Obama and prime ministers. Chef Samuelsson joins Tim Einenkel to talk food, Hip Hop and using them to help explore his cultural experiences.

He tells Tim:

“If you want to explore and learn something, I often start with breaking bread, the food, and the music...If you start at either religion or politics, it gets really heated right away but if you start with the cooks or the musicians, it's away for me to adapt it and process it. “