Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi

By Padma Lakshmi

A brilliant memoir of nutrition and relatives, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate strains the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s not likely course from an immigrant early life to a classy lifestyles in entrance of the camera—a tantalizing mix of Ruth Reichl’s soft on the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn

Long prior to Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a tv set, she realized that how we devour is an extension of ways we adore, how we convenience, how we forge a feeling of home—and how we style the realm as we navigate our method via it. Shuttling among continents as a toddler, she lived a lifetime of dislocation that will develop into behavior as an grownup, by no means relatively at domestic on this planet. And but, via all her travels, her favourite meals remained the easy rice she first ate sitting at the cool ground of her grandmother’s kitchen in South India.

Poignant and superb, Love, Loss, and What We Ate is Lakshmi’s impressive account of her trip from that humble kitchen, governed by means of ferocious and unforgettable ladies, to the judges’ desk of most sensible Chef and past. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the extraordinary those that formed her alongside the way in which, from her headstrong mom who flouted conservative Indian conference to make a existence in manhattan, to her Brahmin grandfather—a significant engineer with an irrepressible candy tooth—to the guy probably improper for her in each manner who proved to be her truest best friend. A memoir wealthy with sensual prose and punctuated with evocative recipes, it truly is alive with the scents, tastes, and textures of a existence that spans complicated geographies either inner and external.

Love, Loss, and What We Ate is an intimate and unforeseen tale of meals and family—both those we're born to and those we create—and their enduring legacies.

Review

“Startlingly honest… not just is it a deeply revealing and private e-book, yet an evocative one jam-packed with attractive turns of phrase.” (Daily Beast)

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A bright memoir of nutrients and kinfolk, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate strains the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s not going direction from an immigrant adolescence to a sophisticated existence in entrance of the camera—a tantalizing mix of Ruth Reichl’s soft on the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn

Long sooner than Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a tv set, she discovered that how we consume is an extension of ways we adore, how we convenience, how we forge a feeling of home—and how we style the area as we navigate our approach via it. Shuttling among continents as a baby, she lived a lifetime of dislocation that might turn into behavior as an grownup, by no means fairly at domestic on the earth. And but, via all her travels, her favourite meals remained the straightforward rice she first ate sitting at the cool ground of her grandmother’s kitchen in South India.

Poignant and amazing, Love, Loss, and What We Ate is Lakshmi’s impressive account of her trip from that humble kitchen, governed by means of ferocious and unforgettable ladies, to the judges’ desk of most sensible Chef and past. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the extraordinary those that formed her alongside the way in which, from her headstrong mom who flouted conservative Indian conference to make a existence in manhattan, to her Brahmin grandfather—a significant engineer with an irrepressible candy tooth—to the fellow likely fallacious for her in each means who proved to be her truest best friend. A memoir wealthy with sensual prose and punctuated with evocative recipes, it's alive with the scents, tastes, and textures of a lifestyles that spans advanced geographies either inner and external.

Love, Loss, and What We Ate is an intimate and unforeseen tale of nutrients and family—both those we're born to and those we create—and their enduring legacies.