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oxfordamerican.org | Mayukh Sen
One night, the chef Lena Richard dreamt of fruit. She pictured a dessert fashioned in the likeness of a watermelon, only one that you could eat “clean through the rind,” as she told the Times-Picayune in 1938. When she awoke, she actualized her vision: She blanketed the bottom of a crescent-shaped mold with whipped cream—the lower half tinted with green food dye, the upper half white—to simulate the fruit’s rind.
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shorturl.at | Mayukh Sen
One night, the chef Lena Richard dreamt of fruit. She pictured a dessert fashioned in the likeness of a watermelon, only one that you could eat “clean through the rind,” as she told the Times-Picayune in 1938. When she awoke, she actualized her vision: She blanketed the bottom of a crescent-shaped mold with whipped cream—the lower half tinted with green food dye, the upper half white—to simulate the fruit’s rind.
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airmail.news | Mayukh Sen
It was the summer of 2009 when I first encountered the work of the actress Merle Oberon (1911–79). I was on the cusp of my senior year of high school, and my lifelong devotion to the Oscars—an event I followed with the avidity of a sports enthusiast—led me to idle those months away researching the history of the awards.
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msn.com | Mayukh Sen
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msn.com | Mayukh Sen
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theatlantic.com | Mayukh Sen
In 1935, a young actor named Merle Oberon landed the role of a lifetime. The Hollywood mogul Samuel Goldwyn was planning to remake the 1925 silent film The Dark Angel as a talkie. Oberon, with her coaly hair and olive complexion, did not quite fit into anyone’s idea of the heroine, who in the silent film had been a fair-skinned maiden of the English countryside.
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slate.com | Mayukh Sen
This is excerpted from the book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. At the start of 1935, a year before she would become the first performer of color and Asian actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, Merle Oberon feared her Hollywood career was over. It had barely begun just a few months before, when she had arrived in America via England.
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yahoo.com | Mayukh Sen
This is excerpted from the book Love, Queenie: Merle Oberon, Hollywood’s First South Asian Star, by Mayukh Sen. Copyright © 2025 by the author and reprinted with permission of the publisher, W. W. Norton & Company, Inc. At the start of 1935, a year before she would become the first performer of color and Asian actress to be nominated for an Academy Award, Merle Oberon feared her Hollywood career was over. It had barely begun just a few months before, when she had arrived in America via England.
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libraryjournal.com | Mayukh Sen
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Mar. 2025.
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Sen (food and culture writing, NYU Sch. of Journalism.;
Taste Makers: Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food in America) takes up the gauntlet for film actor Merle Oberon, born Estelle Merle Thompson but nicknamed “Queenie,” in colonial India in 1911.
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Nov 23, 2024 | 
kirkusreviews.com | Mayukh Sen |Stephanie Johnson |Brandon Stanton |
A blissfully vicarious, heartfelt glimpse into the life of a Manhattan burlesque dancer. A former New York City dancer reflects on her zesty heyday in the 1970s. Discovered on a Manhattan street in 2020 and introduced on Stanton’s Humans of New York Instagram page, Johnson, then 76, shares her dynamic history as a “fiercely independent” Black burlesque dancer who used the stage name Tanqueray and became a celebrated fixture in midtown adult theaters.
