TEJAL RAO
Tejal Rao is a chief restaurant critic for The New York Times, traveling the country to review restaurants of all kinds. She was born in London to East African-Asian and Indian parents and raised in Kuwait, Khartoum, Paris and Atlanta. She has worked as a reporter and critic in New York, where she won two James Beard Foundation Awards for her work and a Vilcek Prize in creative promise, and now lives in Los Angeles with her husband, daughter and two extremely food-motivated dogs.

LIGAYA MISHAN
Ligaya Mishan is a chief restaurant critic for the New York Times. She has won a James Beard Award and an Asian American Journalists Association Award, and has been a finalist for the National Magazine Awards. Her pieces have been selected for the Best American anthologies in magazine, food, and travel writing. Her criticism has appeared in The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker. The daughter of a Filipino mother and a British father, she grew up in Honolulu, Hawai‘i. She studied English literature at Princeton and earned a master of fine arts in poetry at Cornell.