Overview
A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph,Ā Love, Loss, and What We AteĀ traces the arc of Padma Lakshmiās unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the cameraāa tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichlās Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephronās Heartburn
Long 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 homeāand how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. Shuttling between continents as a child, she lived a life of dislocation that would become habit as an adult, never quite at home in the world. And yet, through all her travels, her favorite food remained the simple rice she first ate sitting on the cool floor of her grandmotherās kitchen in South India.
Poignant and surprising,Ā Love, Loss, and What We AteĀ is Lakshmiās extraordinary account of her journey from that humble kitchen, ruled by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judgesā table ofĀ Top ChefĀ 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 grandfatherāa brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet toothāto the man seemingly wrong for her in every way who proved to be her truest ally.Ā A memoir rich with sensual prose and punctuated with evocative recipes, it is alive with the scents, tastes, and textures of a life that spans complex geographies both internal and external.
Love, Loss, and What We AteĀ is an intimate and unexpected story of food and familyāboth the ones we are born to and the ones we createāand their enduring legacies.
This book title, Love, Loss, and What We Ate (A Memoir) - 9780062868572, ISBN: 9780062868572, by Padma Lakshmi, published by HarperCollins (June 19, 2018) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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