This is a phenomenal episode of Tanya's Table, a conversation between two kindred spirits, both alumni of the Boston food-scene. Karen Akunowicz owns the award winning Fox & The Knife in South Boston, she is also a cookbook author and former contestant on Top Chef...sound familiar?

Join Tanya as she welcomes 2x James Beard winner Edouardo Jordan, hailing from Seattle WA. He has the incredible accomplishment of two-time recognition in the same year by the Beard Foundation- 2018 Best Chef of the Northwest and Best New Restaurant. TONS of fun here with these two incredibly talented voices!

Festus Ezeli  is a Nigerian-American professional basketball player for the Westchester Knicks of the NBA G League. He had previously played five seasons in the National Basketball Association (NBA). He played college basketball for Vanderbilt before being selected with the 30th overall pick in the 2012 NBA draftby the Golden State Warriors. Ezeli won an NBA Championship with the Warriors in 2015. He last appeared in the 2016 NBA Finals, and did not play basketball since his knee surgery in the 2017 season until coming back in 2021.

Lizz Wright was born in the small town of Hahira, Georgia; one of three children and the daughter of a minister and the musical director of their Church. She started singing gospel music and playing piano in church as a child, and also became interested in jazz and blues. 

Wright joined the Atlanta-based vocal quartet In the Spirit in 2000, which soon achieved critical acclaim, and in 2002 she signed a recording contact with Verve Records, where her musical compositions and vocal style led her to be conpared to that of Norah Jones.

Her first album, Salt was released in the Spring of 2003 (and reached number two on the Billboard Top Contemporary Jazz chart in 2004). Her next release was not a follow-up of her debut, but this record maintined the jazz and pop blend, while incorporating folk music to her musical blend.Dreaming Wide Awake in June 2005 (which reached number one on the Top Contemporary Jazz chart in 2005 and 2006). In 2008, Wright released The Orchard to positive reviews.

https://www.lizzwright.net 

Ericka Huggins is a human rights activist, poet, educator, Black Panther leader and former political prisoner. For the past 30 years, she has lectured throughout the United States and internationally. Her extraordinary life experiences have enabled her to speak personally and eloquently on issues relating to the physical and emotional well-being of women, children and youth, whole being education, over incarceration, and the role of the spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change.

Join Tanya as she chats with Maneet Chauhan, owner of Chauhan Ale and Masala House in Nashville, TN. Maneet is an Indian American chef and renowned TV personality, and the two have a lot in common in terms of their innovation around flavor and culture throughout their restaurants.

Join Tanya as Jonny Mosely joins her at the Table this week. Jonny is is an American freestyle skier and television presenter. He is the first person born in Puerto Rico to become a member of the U.S. Ski Team. He is also known for hosting three seasons of MTV's The Challenge, which was formerly known as Real World/Road Rules Challenge.

Tanya sits down with music great Lars Ulrich, drummer and co-founder of American Heavy Metal band Metallica. They have a fascinating discussion about music, food and where the two intersect.

Lars Ulrich’s fate was sealed when his father took him to see his first Deep Purple show. Not too many years after that, Lars co-founded Metallica with James Hetfield, and has been there for every triumph and mishap along the way, as the band has carved out its unique place in rock n roll history.

Lars’ decades with Metallica have seen him and the band pretty much do it all—you can Google it, from the records to the shows to the All Within My Hands foundation to Blackened whiskey and beyond... and some of the stuff you’ll find is actually true!