Pooja Makhijani: Contributing Writer for Simply Recipes

Location: New Jersey

Expertise: Baking, South Asian home cooking

Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and Real Simple
Her essay "The Path to an American Dream, Paved in Vienna Fingers," was named Notable in The Best American Food Writing 2019

Experience

Pooja Makhijani is a writer and editor in New Jersey. Her bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, Real Simple, The Atlantic, WSJ.com, The Cut, Teen Vogue, Epicurious, Publishers Weekly, ELLE, Bon Appétit, The Kitchn, BuzzFeed, and Catapult among others. Her essay, "The Path to an American Dream, Paved in Vienna Fingers," was named Notable in The Best American Food Writing 2019.

Favorite spice: "My favorite spice is cardamom; I use it as much as I can."

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