Mayukh Sen Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Mayukh Sen is an author. author: TASTE MAKERS (2021), now writing a biography of merle oberon (2025) + a book of essays about soap operas (also 2025), all for @wwnorton

Taste: My Life Through Food
Stanley Tucci
thank you @nilanjanaroy for this lovely and generous piece in the @FT on my book TASTE MAKERS (out on 11/16 from @wwnorton) + stanley tucci's recent memoir https://t.co/ExdG1kvh1E
Hardcover, 2021
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America
Mayukh Sen
thank you to @jessmayhugh at @thrillist for this lovely feature on my forthcoming book TASTE MAKERS (out next week from @wwnorton) and the pathbreaking work of najmieh batmanglij, one of my book subjects—i loved being in conversation with her https://www.thrillist.com/eat/nation/taste-makers-najmieh-batmanglij-mayukh-sen-interview
Paperback, 2022
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Spoiled: The Myth of Milk as Superfood
Anne Mendelson
But this latest book is not so much an excoriation of fresh milk as it is a provocation, one that urges readers to question fresh milk’s hegemonic grip over the American mind.
Hardcover, 2023
$29.95Member price:$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Volver: A Persistence of Memory
Antonio C. Márquez
next stop on my book tour is MAYUKH SEN SELECTS at @MetrographNYC—tomorrow evening i'll be introducing two films (BLACK GIRL at 5:15pm + VOLVER at 8pm) that inspired my book, and i'll be having a q&a with my love @tylrmntg after the BLACK GIRL screening: https://nyc.metrograph.com/series/series/285/mayukh-sen-selects https://t.co/Fz6V0AMh6Y
Paperback, 2017
$21.95Member price:$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Best American Food Writing 2022
Sohla El-Waylly
THE BEST AMERICAN FOOD WRITING 2022 is out today from @MarinerBooks, and i’m happy to have my @voxdotcom essay on j ranji smile anthologized in it (my third time having my writing reprinted in this series!!!) thank you to sohla el-waylly and @silviakillings for the recognition https://t.co/9q9VTk4E6K
Paperback, 2022
$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sofreh: A Contemporary Approach to Classic Persian Cuisine: A Cookbook
Nasim Alikhani
Her book, at its core, is a plea to honor the cooking of women like her grandmother or great-grandmother, women who feed their families through famine, divorces, poverty... This might be the most vital thread: an awareness that generations may die...but their work doesn’t have to
Hardcover, 2023
$40.00Member price:$20.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cherry Bombe: The Cookbook
Kerry Diamond
i had a blast going on radio cherry bombe to talk to kerry diamond about my forthcoming book TASTE MAKERS (along with my love of dire straits and general hospital 😌) give it a listen! https://t.co/3CUzEXvFAf
Hardcover, 2017
$35.00Member price:$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book