Chef Marcus Samuelsson on the ingredients for success

0:04One of the dishes that is so dear to me, it's something that I've loved growing up, is a dish called saibaji, a spinach and lentil stew that has 10 other vegetables that have been pureed and delicately weaved into the stew.

0:19So you get this complex amalgam of flavors.

0:23That's Jay Punjabi.

0:25He's a co-founder and head of television at Wait What, the company that produces Masters of Scale.

0:31The dish he's talking about sounds delicious, but for him, there's a deeper meaning to it than simple comfort food.

0:40When my father was just eight years old, he was in a refugee camp in Bombay after the partition of India and Pakistan.

0:49He would go out and seek this dish in the home of people in the refugee camp because it became a thing that connected him to the home that he had left and the world that he was familiar with.