Before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home, and how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, that is punctuated with recipes, Love, Loss and What We Ate traces Lakshmi’s journey from her grandmother’s kitchen in South India to the judges’ table of the Emmy Award-winning Bravo series Top Chef and beyond.
Before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home, and how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, that is punctuated with recipes, Love, Loss and What We Ate traces Lakshmi’s journey from her grandmother’s kitchen in South India to the judges’ table of the Emmy Award-winning Bravo series Top Chef and beyond.
Before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home, and how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, that is punctuated with recipes, Love, Loss and What We Ate traces Lakshmi’s journey from her grandmother’s kitchen in South India to the judges’ table of the Emmy Award-winning Bravo series Top Chef and beyond.