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Antara Sinha

Associate Editor, Cooking

Antara is an associate editor at Bon Appétit whose work includes writing about the joys of cooking with South Asian spice blends, a review of Bad Bunny’s Miami restaurant, and plenty of ingredient and technique explainers to help level up your kitchen skills. She developed the “Part-Time Plant-Based” cooking column and has produced and contributed to editorial packages on homemade noodles, summer farmers markets, and The Great Bagel Boom. Before Bon Appétit, she worked as editorial assistant at Food & Wine magazine, social media editor at MyRecipes.com, and editorial fellow at Cooking Light magazine. She is an alumni of the University of Florida’s College of Journalism and Communications. When Antara is not working, you can find her running, practicing Muay Thai, or volunteering at an NYC Greenmarket. Keep up with Antara Sinha’s work here.

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