Tejal Rao is a writer from Northwest London. Her writing has appeared in Gourmet.com, Edible Manhattan, Edible Brooklyn, Time Out New York, Tasting Table and Electric Literature's Outlet. She is a regular contributor to TheAtlantic.com.
Tejal grew up in London, Kuwait, Khartoum and Paris with her East African mother and Indian father. She left Paris as a teenager and went to high school in Atlanta, Georgia. Tejal studied literature at Emerson College in Boston, Italian at John Cabot University in Rome, and pastry/cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu, London. She has worked as a fish cook in Washington D.C., a baker in San Francisco, a barista in Boston and a French translator in New York.
She lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with her boyfriend and their clever dog, Kimchi.
Tejal grew up in London, Kuwait, Khartoum and Paris with her East African mother and Indian father. She left Paris as a teenager and went to high school in Atlanta, Georgia. Tejal studied literature at Emerson College in Boston, Italian at John Cabot University in Rome, and pastry/cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu, London. She has worked as a fish cook in Washington D.C., a baker in San Francisco, a barista in Boston and a French translator in New York.
She lives in Red Hook, Brooklyn, with her boyfriend and their clever dog, Kimchi.
