“Anticlimactic” is how Joshna Maharaj describes the launch of her first book, Take Back the Tray: Revolutionizing Food in Hospitals, Schools, and Other Institutions, which had the unfortunate timing of being published just a few weeks after the pandemic started in 2020. “When all the parties and interviews got cancelled in one afternoon, I realized that this was going to be a slow burn,” she says. The subject matter couldn’t have been more timely, though.