Priyadarshini Chatterjee

Priyadarshini Chatterjee is a food, culture, and travel writer based in Kolkata, India. Her work has appeared in a number of national and international publications, including Condé Nast Traveller India, Whetstone Magazine, Mint Lounge, Scroll.in, The Hindu BusinessLine, and Lonely Planet India, among others. She graduated with honours in political science from the University of Calcutta, followed by a postgraduate degree in media and cultural studies from the University of Sussex. But her heart lay in writing. She returned to India and worked for a while on the features teams of different publications, before quitting her job to write independently. She chose food as her area of exploration, dabbling in different genres of food writing—from blogging about family recipes to critiquing restaurants—before focusing her work on the intersections of food, history, and culture. She is particularly interested in exploring food in its historical contexts. When she is not writing or researching about food, she can be found cooking up a storm in her kitchen.