Shoba Narayan contributes to Conde Nast Traveler, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, Town & Country, Food & Wine, Saveur, Newsweek, and Home Beautiful, among other publications, on food, travel, fashion, art, and culture. She contributes a weekly column to Mint Lounge, a Wall Street Journal-affiliated Indian business publication. NPR's All Things Considered has aired her comments. Narayan's memoir Monsoon Diary: A Memoir with Recipes earned the James Beard Foundation's MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award, and her essay The God of Little Feasts won the James Beard Foundation's MFK Fisher Distinguished Writing Award.