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Cairo, Seattle. I'm Rachel Bell, and this is your last meal, a show about famous people and the stories behind the foods they love most.

Today on the program, one of the best tennis players in the world, Maria Sharapova.

Maria won five career grand slam titles,

an Olympic medal, and last year, at just 32 years old, she retired after playing tennis for 28 years.

But Maria is still working. A lifetime lover of sweets, she is the CEO of her own candy company.

It's called Sugarpova. If there's

anyone that knows how to take care of their body, it's me for so many years, but I also know

that it's important to treat yourself. Maria is Russian, and even though she moved to the U.S.

as a child, her comfort foods are still the one she grew up eating in her grandmother's kitchen.

So I chat with Bonnie Morales, owner of Kachka in Portland, Oregon,

which is considered by many to be the best Russian restaurant in the country.

And potato potato, tomato, tomato.

But when talking about the potato pancakes popularly eaten at Hanukkah,

do you say Latka or do you say Latka? Or do you say

lotki? Sarah Budin Baner is a Jewish linguist and professor at Hebrew Union College. Sarah joins

the show to explain why that word has two different pronunciations. But first, my conversation

with Maria Sharapova.

Maria had a very different childhood than most.

Like a lot of professional athletes, she got serious about her sport at a very young age.

I do ask myself very often, did I really start playing tennis at four years old?

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