Mayukh Sen

Mayukh Sen is the author of TASTE MAKERS: SEVEN IMMIGRANT WOMEN WHO REVOLUTIONIZED FOOD IN AMERICA (Norton, 2021), named a best book of 2021 by NPR, one of the Wall Street Journal’s favorite books of 2021, a New York Times Editors’ Choice pick, and a nominee for the 2022 Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize. His next two books, a biography of the Indian-born Old Hollywood actress Merle Oberon and an essay collection on American soap operas, are both forthcoming from Norton. He has won a James Beard and IACP Award for his food writing, and his work has been anthologized in three editions of THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING.