others have to sift through the pieces. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, la, sha, la, la, la, la, nebil: addis ababa. anthony: admit it. you hear the name ethiopia and you think starving children with distended bellies. you think dust and famine and despair so awful, you frankly don t want to even think about it anymore. but take a look. addis ababa, capital city of ethiopia. a cool, high altitude, urban center that will both confirm and confound expectations. fueled largely by direct foreign investment and a returning ethiopian diaspora eager to be part of the new growth, things are changing in addis. it s one of the fastest growing economies in the world . it s not the first time the place has gone through a growth spurt. in the 1950s, emperor hai
maya: how did he get the skin off? marcus: he just, one move he did it. what? maya: we used to use like hot boiled water. marcus: yeah. maya: after killing it, you anthony: right, dip him in. maya: dip it there, and that s how i grew up. anthony: morocco has ras el hanout, india, garam masala. ethiopia has this. the brightly colored berbere . the color is amazing, and those guys who grind the stuff are covered with it, breathe it all
that combo it s gonna be so cool. anthony: marcus samuelsson. maybe you know him from such shows as a lot of them. or his many restaurants, his best-selling memoir, his status as america s most recognizable black chef. but marcus isn t african-american. he s swedish-american or ethiopian-swedish-american or, look, it s complicated. what is true to say is that marcus samuelsson, like his wife maya, was born here in ethiopia. so, when was the last time you were, uh, you were in ethiopia? marcus: four years ago. and you can tell it s changed. it changed a lot. anthony: i m interested in seeing an african country that was never, uh, colonized. it was never taken by europe. marcus: no, that sense of pride, and you really hit the nail on the head, i mean, that sense of pride is also the sense of that everyone wants to come back. anthony: how does it feel coming back?