Northwoods Reporter

UW-Superior to host graduate, chef, entrepreneur, food writer Nyanyika Banda

Banda will be part of a discussion on International Womxn's Day in the Yellowjacket Union

The University of Wisconsin-Superior will welcome Nyanyika Banda, 2017 graduate, chef, entrepreneur and food writer, to campus on Thursday, March 2.

Banda will discuss attending UW-Superior from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Jim Dan Hill Library in an event for the campus community.

From 4:30 to 6 p.m., Banda will be part of a discussion on International Womxn's Day in the Yellowjacket Union atrium. This event is free and open to the public.

A 25-year veteran of the restaurant and hospitality industry, Banda has worked in some of the top restaurants in the country, including WD50, Mission Chinese Food and the Saveur Magazine test kitchen. Banda recently authored Marvel’s “Black Panther: The Official Wakanda Cookbook.”

Banda is best known for her roving catering company, Martha’s Daughter. Among many awards and accolades, including a Twin Cities Eater Award in 2018 for “New Restaurant Worth the Drive” for the brick and mortar version that was in downtown Duluth.

Currently, Banda teaches culinary arts at Barnstable High School on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, and runs the catering company, Martha’s Daughter.

This program is a collaboration between UW-Superior’s Office of Intercultural Student Success and the Gender Equity Resource Center. The Yellowjacket Union is located at 1605 Catlin Ave.

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