Tejal Rao is a writer from Northwest London. She writes about food, booze, books and design for Edible Manhattan, Edible Brooklyn, Time Out New York, Tasting Table and is a regular contributor to The Atlantic. Tejal wrote about the German inventor Dr. Peter Schlumbohm for Gourmet. She edits her brother's wellness magazine WellWire.com and freelances as a copy editor and French translator.
Tejal grew up in London, Kuwait, Khartoum and Paris with her East African mother and Indian father, and spent summers with her grandparents in Nairobi and Pune. Her family left Paris when she was a teenager and she went to high school in Atlanta, Georgia. She studied literature at Emerson College in Boston and pastry/cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu, London before working in Washington D.C. and San Francisco restaurant kitchens for a few years.
She lives in Brooklyn and tweets here, often about her clever dog, Kimchi (illustrated above by L. Nichols).
Tejal grew up in London, Kuwait, Khartoum and Paris with her East African mother and Indian father, and spent summers with her grandparents in Nairobi and Pune. Her family left Paris when she was a teenager and she went to high school in Atlanta, Georgia. She studied literature at Emerson College in Boston and pastry/cuisine at Le Cordon Bleu, London before working in Washington D.C. and San Francisco restaurant kitchens for a few years.
She lives in Brooklyn and tweets here, often about her clever dog, Kimchi (illustrated above by L. Nichols).
