Mayukh Sen is an American writer and author of a nonfiction book, Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America.

[1] Sen is the author of Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America, which was published by W.W. Norton & Co in 2021.

The nonfiction book is a journey through America's modern culinary history, told through the lives of seven path-breaking female chefs and food writers.

The James Beard Award is known as the “Oscar of the food world.”[6] Sen didn't expect to win, and wrote his acceptance speech on the back of a gum wrapper on the cab ride over.

She earned this title during a time when her black skin, her womanhood, and her Southern accent weren't just signifiers of identity; they were handicaps that limited her possibilities in the culinary world.