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Karen Akunowicz
Executive Chef/Partner Myers+Chang, Top Chef California, James Beard Nominee
Chef Karen Akunowicz is a 2015 & 2016 James Beard Nominee for Best Chef Northeast. She competed on Season 13 of Bravo TV’s Top Chef-California, and she is the Executive Chef/Partner at Myers+Chang in Boston, MA.
She co-authored the Myers+Chang at Home Cookbook (Houghton Mifflin 2017) and was called one of the “ 21 Badass Women Changing the Food Word” by Marie Claire Magazine.
Her international work includes the role as Chef at L'Avion Blu Enoteca in Modena, Italy.
Go here to learn more about Myers & Chang, where Karen currently resides as Executive Chef.
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