Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
by:
Padma Lakshmi (author)
A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn Long...
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A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how w
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Publisher: Ecco
Pages no: 341
Edition language: English
Date Published: March 8, 2016 Format: Hardcover Source: Library Date Read: March 19-22, 2019 Review: I needed some time to sit with this book before I wrote this review. I had higher than usual expectations for this book, as just from the title alone I felt this memoir was going to be deeper than...
What a story, and what a life!I am a fan of Top Chef and have watched Padma on it since I first started watching. I always wondered what her claim to fame was, and her memoir definitely fills us in and more. I was blown away by some of the stuff I learned about her, and am even more in awe of her. S...
Like a lot of people, I had no idea who Padma Lakshmi was until she popped up on the second season of Top Chef as the new host. I loved everything about this book. I love the way she tells her story. Most of us have stories that revolved around food. We all have memories of the Thanksgiving and Chri...
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