Love, loss, and what we ate

Television personality Padma Lakshmi examines "her journey from [a humble family kitchen], led by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judges' table of Top Chef and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable people who shaped her along the way, from her headstrong mother who fl...

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Main Author: Lakshmi, Padma
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
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Summary:Television personality Padma Lakshmi examines "her journey from [a humble family kitchen], led by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judges' table of Top Chef and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable people who shaped her along the way, from her headstrong mother who flouted conservative Indian convention to make a life in New York, to her Brahmin grandfather--a brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet tooth--to the man seemingly wrong for her in every way who proved to be her truest ally"--Amazon.com.
Item Description:Includes recipes.
Physical Description:325 pages ; 24 cm
ISBN:0062202618 (hardback)
9780062202611 (hardback)
Author Notes:Padma Lakshmi is a graduate of Clark University. She will be a host on the Food Network's new 13-part series The Melting Pot beginning September 2000. She lives in Los Angeles.

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