An award-win­ning chef, Alon Shaya was born in Israel, raised in Philadel­phia, and is a proud New Orlean­ian. His restau­rants include Saba and Safta’s Table in New Orleans and Saf­ta in Den­ver. In 2021, Shaya spear­head­ed the Res­cued Recipes ini­tia­tive with the Unit­ed States Holo­caust Memo­r­i­al Muse­um. The author of Shaya: An Odyssey of Food, My Jour­ney Back to Israel, he has been rec­og­nized by The For­ward as one of the ​“50 Most Influ­en­tial Jews in America.”