Longform Podcast #431: Tejal Rao Your browser does not support the audio player. Click here to download the podcast. Show Notes @tejalrao tejalrao.com Rao's New York Times archive [02:00] "Is My Takeout Risking Lives or Saving Restaurants?" (New York Times • Apr 2020) [04:00] Rao's Atlantic archive [10:00] Rao's Saveur archive [14:00] "For Best Results, Eat This Roti Immediately" (New York Times • Oct 2020) [14:00] "Dining and Driving on the Empty Freeways of Los Angeles" (New York Times • Mar 2020) [15:00] "A Day in the Life of a Food Vendor" (New York Times • Apr 2017) [16:00] "India’s ‘Pickle Queen’ Preserves Everything, Including the Past" (New York Times • Jul 2020) [20:00] "Oysters: A Love Story" (New York Times Magazine • Aug 2017) [27:00] "I Lost My Appetite Because of Covid. This Sichuan Flavor Brought It Back." (New York Times Magazine • Jan 2021) [31:00] "The Old-School Reasons to Love Los Angeles Restaurants" (New York Times • Feb 2019) [34:00] "How Kit Kat Got Big in Japan" (New York Times Magazine • Oct 2018) [44:00] "Meatpacking Companies Dismissed Years of Warnings but Now Say Nobody Could Have Prepared for COVID-19" (Michael Grabell and Bernice Yeung • ProPublica • Aug 2020) Illustration by Tony Millionaire