Love, Loss, and What We Ate

By Padma Lakshmi,

Book cover of Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

Book description

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…

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1 author picked Love, Loss, and What We Ate as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?

For me, food is a gateway to this moment, to radical gratitude (I can trace one piece of food to all those who touched and grew it, the elements of the earth that ripened it), and above all, connection. Growing up in a South Asian immigrant home that felt like it was displaced in the deep American south, we held on to food the way you hold on for safety. It connected us back to our ancestors and our stories.

In this memoir, Padma Lakshmi shows us how food was not only her anchor but also her path to forging…

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