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  Tejal Rao

Tejal Rao

Hello! I'm a critic at large for The New York Times, covering food and culture. ​I've won two James Beard Foundation Awards for my criticism and a Vilcek Prize in creative promise. I was previously a restaurant critic at The Village Voice and at Bloomberg News, and have also worked as a translator, copy editor and cook. I live in Los Angeles. 
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BOOKS
My work was included in these anthologies
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- Women on Food
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edited by Charlotte Druckman 
​(Rizzoli, 2019)

- The Good Immigrant USA
edited by Chimene Suleyman and Nikesh Shukla  
(Little Brown, 2019)
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​-The Best American Food Writing 2019
edited by Samin Nosrat
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019)

​​- The Best American Food Writing 2018
edited by Ruth Reichl
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2018)

INTERVIEWS 
- The Believer
- Longform
- Times Insider
- Subtle Maneuvers
- Tiffin

CONTACT
​The best way to reach me is by email
tejal.rao@nytimes.com

- twitter 
@tejalrao 

- instagram
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@tejalxrao​

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​​<<< this is a photo of a head of radicchio del Veneto by Tony Cenicola (c) 2017 The New York Times >>>
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