Tejal Rao

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Tejal Rao
Born1982or1983(age 40–41)
London, United Kingdom
Education Emerson College (BA) [1]
Alma materEmerson College
Occupation(s)Restaurant critic, recipe developer
Employer(s) The Village Voice , New York Times , Bloomberg L.P.
Website www.tejalrao.com OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg

Tejal Rao (born 1982or1983) [2] is a restaurant critic, recipe developer and writer based in Los Angeles. [3] In 2018, she was named the first California restaurant critic for The New York Times . [3] In 2021, she was named editor of the New York Times subscription cooking newsletter The Veggie. [4]

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Early life and education

Rao was born in London, but spent time in Kuwait, Sudan, and France during her youth before settling in Cobb County, Georgia as a teenager. [5] Rao's mother was born in Uganda and her father was raised in India.[ citation needed ]

Rao attended Emerson College, where she earned a BA in literature. [5]

Career

In 2012, Rao joined The Village Voice as a food critic. [6] In 2013, Rao won the James Beard Foundation’s Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award for her work for The Village Voice. [7]

In 2014, Rao joined Bloomberg as a food editor and restaurant critic. [8] In 2016, she won the James Beard Foundation’s Craig Claiborne Distinguished Restaurant Review Award once again, this time for her work at Bloomberg. [9] In the same year, Rao joined the New York Times as a food department staff writer and monthly columnist for its magazine. [10] In 2018, she was named theNew York Times' first California restaurant critic, to better serve the growing number of New York Times readers in the state. [3]

In 2021, Rao was named the New York Times writer for the vegetarian recipe newsletter The Veggie. [4] Rao is not a vegetarian in her personal life but enjoys cooking vegetarian food. [11]

Rao has also contributed to a range of other publications, such as The Atlantic, Edible, and Gourmet, among others. [5]

Personal life

In December 2020, she contracted COVID-19 and lost her sense of smell. She used smell therapy to regain it over the course of two months. [12] [13] She lives in Los Angeles. [14]

Awards and accolades

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