Meet Seven Immigrant Women Who Shaped the Way America Eats
Mayukh Sen celebrates the legacies of female chefs and cookbook authors—and questions why they’re not better known—in his new book, “Taste Makers.”
November 10, 2021
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How can one shape America’s proverbial melting pot? Mayukh Sen, a James Beard Award–winning food journalist and professor at New York University, offers an answer with the stories of seven immigrant women, from World War II to the present day, whose culinary prowess shaped how and what people in the States eat today. Sen illuminates these pivotal chefs and food writers in his debut book, Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America (W.W. Norton), out next week.
