Tejal Rao
Hello! I'm a critic at large for The New York Times, covering food and culture. I’ve written recent columns about Sanrio's corporate anxiety over expiration dates, our insatiable appetite for grandma content, the persistence of mycophobia, and the dark magic of Disney food.
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 was born in London and live in Los Angeles.
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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 was born in London and live in Los Angeles.
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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)
CONTACT
The best way to reach me is by email
tejal.rao@nytimes.com
<<< this is a photo of a head of radicchio del Veneto by Tony Cenicola (c) 2017 The New York Times >>>
The best way to reach me is by email
tejal.rao@nytimes.com
<<< this is a photo of a head of radicchio del Veneto by Tony Cenicola (c) 2017 The New York Times >>>