{"id":519292,"date":"2011-04-07T04:46:42","date_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/addisnegeronline.com\/?p=6111"},"modified":"2011-04-07T04:46:42","modified_gmt":"2011-04-07T08:46:42","slug":"globetrotting-food-up-harlem-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/519292","title":{"rendered":"Globetrotting food, up Harlem way"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6112\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 480px\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-6112\" href=\"http:\/\/addisnegeronline.com\/2011\/04\/globetrotting-food-up-harlem-way\/6751b74e-5a87-11e0-8367-00144feab49a\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6112\" title=\"6751b74e-5a87-11e0-8367-00144feab49a\" src=\"http:\/\/addisnegeronline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/6751b74e-5a87-11e0-8367-00144feab49a.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"470\" height=\"313\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marcus Samuelsson outside Red Rooster<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>We had just sat down for Sunday brunch at Red Rooster, on Lenox Avenue, Harlem. It was 11.10am and our waitress asked whether we would like a drink before ordering. \u201cTwo Bloody Marys and a beer,\u201d we replied innocently and, as it turned out, optimistically. Here, no alcohol may be served on a Sunday before midday, a hangover of the \u201cblue laws\u201d introduced many years ago after the collapse of prohibition.<\/p>\n<p>Chef\u00a0<a title=\"FT - Angel of Harlem\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/68230a4c-3f9d-11e0-a1ba-00144feabdc0.html\">Marcus Samuelsson<\/a> opened Red Rooster last December, with hopes of restoring the glory days of this much-neglected district. The restaurant has three parts: at the front are communal high tables and a large curved bar (\u201cthe watering hole\u201d as Samuelsson calls it); downstairs is for music and behind the bar is the appealing restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>A great deal of attention has gone into the decoration on the walls, with work by leading black artists. The lavatories are intriguingly bedecked with photos of Samuelsson\u2019s own journey from Ethiopia to his adoptive family in Sweden and, finally, to the US.<\/p>\n<p>To read more from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/home\/europe\">FT<\/a> click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ft.com\/cms\/s\/2\/0c23103e-5a6e-11e0-8367-00144feab49a.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marcus Samuelsson outside Red Rooster We had just sat down for Sunday brunch at Red Rooster, on Lenox Avenue, Harlem. It was 11.10am and our waitress asked whether we would like a drink before ordering. \u201cTwo Bloody Marys and a &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/519292\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Globetrotting food, up Harlem way<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":80,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[100,18,223,1238,1239],"class_list":["post-519292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-amharic","tag-addis-ababa","tag-ethiopia","tag-health","tag-importexport","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/80"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519292\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.net\/amharic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}