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On today’s two part show, host Esty Dinur kicks off the hour with journalist Maureen Tkacik, Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project and the Investigations Editor at The American Prospect. They discuss Tkacik’s recent piece for the Prospect, the assassination of CEO of UnitedHealthcare Brian Thompson, and the billionaire impact on the the 2024 election. 

Then Esty speaks with Cherokee chef Nico Albert Williams about indigenous cuisines ahead of Williams’s four dinner residency at Seven Acre Dairy Co. in Paoli next week. Tickets for the dinner series can be found here.

More on our guests:

Maureen “Moe” Tkacik is a Senior Fellow at the American Economic Liberties Project and the Investigations Editor at The American Prospect. She has a background in journalism, having worked for publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Time, and Gawker. Tkacik is also known for co-founding the website Jezebel in 2007. She writes about business, economics, and healthcare, contributing to various publications including Jacobin and Bloomberg BusinessWeek.

Nico Albert Williams, of the Cherokee nation, is a self-taught chef, caterer and student of traditional indigenous cuisines based in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Her journey to learn traditional Cherokee ways, dishes and the wild and cultivated ingredients involved in their preparation grew to encompass the Indigenous cuisines of tribes from all parts of North America, and led to her involvement in Indigenous food revitalization and food sovereignty.

She is the founding Executive Chef of Duet Restaurant + Jazz, a modern American eatery and jazz club in the heart of the Tulsa Arts District and the Owner and the Executive Chef of Burning Cedar Indigenous Wellness. Her work has been featured regionally and nationally by Food Network Magazine, Hulu, BBC, Cherokee Nation’s OsiyoTV, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, King Arthur Baking Co, Atlas Obscura, PBS, Gilcrease Museum, and Philbrook Museum among others.

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