Madhushree Ghosh is author of the award-winning debut food narrative memoir KHABAAR: An Immigrant Journey of Food, Memory and Family (University of Iowa Press, 2022). She is a 2023 TEDx San Diego speaker highlighting food, immigration, social justice and community ("What We Talk About When We Talk About Food"). Her work has appeared in Best American Essays in Food Writing (2023), Pushcart-nominated, and awarded the Independent Publishers Book Awards (IPPY) Gold (memoir/family legacy), published in the New York Times, LA Times, Washington Post, Vogue India, Longreads, Catapult, BOMB, The Rumpus, Writer's Digest, LA Review of Books, Guernica, and others. Reach her @writemadhushree.
When Vauhini Vara’s This is Salvaged (W.W. Norton, 2023) arrived at my doorstep, I couldn’t wait to tear through the slim collection. Vara is a master storyteller, but more than…