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.

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