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Love, Loss, and What We Ate
Padma Lakshmi
Ecco
March 2016
On Sale: March 8, 2016
336 pages
ISBN: 0062202618
EAN: 9780062202611
Kindle: B00BATIKO8
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction Memoir
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 we eat is an extension of how we
love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home—and 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 grandmother’s kitchen in South India. Poignant and surprising, Love, Loss, and What We Ate is
Lakshmi’s extraordinary account of her journey from that
humble kitchen, ruled 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. 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 Ate is an intimate and unexpected
story of food and family—both the ones we are born to and
the ones we create—and their enduring legacies.
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