Award-Winning Writer Mayukh Sen Shines A Light On Food’s Hidden Figures

“Sen’s new book, Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, which is out on November 16, is an extension of this mission. Sen profiles seven women—“seven immigrants who used food to construct an identity outside their home country,” as he describes them—and explores why the stories of these women and their achievements to the American culinary world have largely fallen under the radar and what this says about the industry’s marginalization.”