Tejal Rao
Hello! I'm a critic for The New York Times and I live in Los Angeles.
I've written about bagels, oysters, mall pizza, fake foods, how Kit Kat flavors are born in Japan and new developments in the world of vegan cheese. As the California restaurant critic for the Times, I reviewed a bakery in Long Beach, a tlayuda stall in South Los Angeles, a truck stop in Bakersfield and a sushi restaurant in Malibu.
I've won two James Beard Foundation Awards for restaurant criticism and a Vilcek Prize in creative promise. I was previously a restaurant critic at The Village Voice and at Bloomberg News, and before that worked as an editor, translator, copy editor and cook.
I was born in London to East African-Asian and Indian parents and raised there, Paris, Kuwait, Khartoum and Atlanta. I live in Los Angeles with my husband, baby and two extremely food-motivated dogs. The best way to reach me is by email: [email protected]
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I've written about bagels, oysters, mall pizza, fake foods, how Kit Kat flavors are born in Japan and new developments in the world of vegan cheese. As the California restaurant critic for the Times, I reviewed a bakery in Long Beach, a tlayuda stall in South Los Angeles, a truck stop in Bakersfield and a sushi restaurant in Malibu.
I've won two James Beard Foundation Awards for restaurant criticism and a Vilcek Prize in creative promise. I was previously a restaurant critic at The Village Voice and at Bloomberg News, and before that worked as an editor, translator, copy editor and cook.
I was born in London to East African-Asian and Indian parents and raised there, Paris, Kuwait, Khartoum and Atlanta. I live in Los Angeles with my husband, baby and two extremely food-motivated dogs. The best way to reach me is by email: [email protected]
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BOOKS
My work was included in these anthologies
- Women on Food
edited by Charlotte Druckman
(Rizzoli, 2019)
- The Good Immigrant USA
edited by Chimene Suleyman and Nikesh Shukla
(Little Brown, 2019)
-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)
My work was included in these anthologies
- Women on Food
edited by Charlotte Druckman
(Rizzoli, 2019)
- The Good Immigrant USA
edited by Chimene Suleyman and Nikesh Shukla
(Little Brown, 2019)
-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)
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