Dakshana Bascaramurty is The Globe and Mail’s food culture reporter, based in Halifax.
Her work explores cooking, dining out and nutrition through a socioeconomic lens: how race, class and religion affect how we eat and what we eat. She takes readers behind the scenes of social media food trends, helps them understand the science behind taste and preference and explores the ways restaurants and food are reflected in pop culture.
Previously, Dakshana worked on the national desk, reporting on race and ethnicity. In 2022, a team she co-led was nominated for Project of the Year at the National Newspaper Awards for a year-long, in-depth look at how one Brampton neighbourhood with a large racialized population experienced COVID-19.
Her work as The Globe’s 905 region reporter, chronicling life and the changing demographics in the suburban cities that surround Toronto, earned her a 2013 National Newspaper Award for beat reporting.
She started her career writing about technology, social media and money for Globe Life.
Her first book, the national bestseller This is Not the End of Me, was published in 2020.
