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SHOBA NARAYAN has written for Travel & Leisure, gourmet, Saveur, Food & Wine, Newsweek, house Beautiful, The New York times and The Wall Street Journal. She is a regular guest on NPR's all Things Considered Weekend and a recipient of the M F K. Fisher Award for distinguished Writing, given by the James Beard Foundation. Narayan graduated from the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism, which awarded her a Pulitzer Fellowship. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children. Her website is www.shobanarayan.com.