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Padma Lakshmi

(1970) Actor India

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Padma Lakshmi is an actor from India, best known for Love, loss, and what we ate.

Quick Facts About Padma Lakshmi

Born: September 1, 1970
Nationality: India
Profession: Actor
Notable works: Love, loss, and what we ate
Spouse: Salman Rushdie

About Padma Lakshmi

Padma Parvati Lakshmi is an American television host, model, author, entrepreneur, and activist. She rose to prominence by hosting the Bravo cooking competition program Top Chef (2006–2023). Lakshmi is the creator, host, and executive producer of the docuseries Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, which premiered in 2020 on Hulu. For her work with these two series, as an executive producer and as a host, she has received 16 Primetime Emmy Award nominations.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Padma Lakshmi · Page 3

Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If…

Back

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“experienced a bout of atheism. With adolescent self-importance, I wondered why God would allow all this to happen to a fourteen-year-old girl.…

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“Hearing doctors tell you that you can’t get pregnant does not extinguish the hope.”

Hope

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I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

Sometimes

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The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky,…

Bonus

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If you have children in your house you have Frosted Flakes.

Children

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I will eat anything, at least once. For better or worse.

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Each city has its own culinary landscape.

Cities

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I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion…

Clothes

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During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

Chef

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Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a…

Appreciate

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I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in…

Cameras

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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of…

Flowers

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I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

Bangles

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“I once asked her if she was happy. “That depends on what I am able to get done”

Happiness

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“I didn’t wholly identify with the collective experiences of children in either place. I had one foot in each culture, but no…

Children

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“She had so little control over her own life. Yet she took control, out of thin air for herself, when she could.…

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I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other…

About

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You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great…

Because

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Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your…

Break

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I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm…

Adults

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I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is…

Be respectful

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It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

Chewing

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I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna…

Bologna

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If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant…

Barbecue

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