Priya Krishna is an Indian American food journalist, author and Social Media personality. She was raised in Dallas, Texas by her Indian parents who emigrated to the United States in the 1980’s.  She attended Dartmouth and wrote a food column for “The Dartmouth” the daily student newspaper. She has said that writing this column was what made her realize that her enthusiasm for food might also be a career path she would enjoy. "I loved the idea of being able to describe food, and kind of live and breathe it through my words. I also started, in my classes, doing a lot of academic deep dives in food — I took a bunch of classes that allowed me to write about food. I realized I was interested not only in describing food but exploring the cultural and historical underpinnings of food." After college she was hired by “Lucky Peach” Magazine, David Chang’s quarterly Food Magazine at the time.  Krishna left to freelance and two of her essays on food written for The New York Times have been included in editions of “The Best American Food Writing”. She began to appear on the Bon Appetit YouTube channel in 2018 where she left in 2020 with several other cast members citing racial pay inequity as their reason for leaving.  In 2021 Priya began to write for The New York Times as a food staff reporter and regularly makes appearances on their YouTube channel for cooking content. Krishna has been nominated for awards by the James Beard Foundation, named to the Forbes 30 Under 30 list and has written two bestselling cookbooks including 2019’s “Indian-ish" and 2024’s “Priya’s Kitchen Adventures: A Cookbook for Kids.”