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Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir (utgåvan 2016)

av Padma Lakshmi (Författare)

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Biography & Autobiography. Cooking & Food. Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. HTML:

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 cameraâ??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 homeâ??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 grandfatherâ??a brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet toothâ??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 familyâ??both the ones we are born to and the ones we createâ??and their endur… (mer)

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Titel:Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
Författare:Padma Lakshmi (Författare)
Info:Ecco (2016), Edition: 1st, 336 pages
Samlingar:Ditt bibliotek
Betyg:****
Taggar:Ingen/inga

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Imagine sitting with a new dear friend, sharing a meal and childhood stories, sometimes laughing, sometimes crying, asking "then what", and leaving mesmerized and amazed at the resilience a soul can possess. That is this memoir. I've watched Top Chef and have always been impressed with Padma's grace and poise, even while eating something less than appetizing (hunk of fat, anyone?). Beyond being beautiful, Padma guides the chefs and the show through each season with humor and a gentle touch. I decided to read "Love, Loss, and What We Ate" partly because of the title, and partly because of the revelation that she'd been molested as a child. As a survivor, I was dying to know how she came out on the other side. I got so much more. There is an immediacy and intimacy to this book, that feels like she is just sitting at my table, having a cup of tea, which I think is really remarkable for anyone sharing their story. ( )
  b00kdarling87 | Jan 7, 2024 |
Book on CD narrated by the author.

I don’t read a lot of celebrity memoirs, but when a friend recommended this one I had to see what the fuss was about. I’ve never seen Top Chef but I know of its existence. And I’d heard of Lakshmi, though I was completely unaware of her personal drama. (Don’t follow celebrity news outlets either.)

I liked the portions of the book that took us back to her childhood in India, to the cultures, foods, sights, sounds and smells that helped form her. I was much less interested in her marriage, divorce, new relationship(s), and pregnancy. From what she relates of her early adulthood (into her 40s), I got the impression that she identified herself by the man she was attached to. This irritated me and I didn’t really like her all that much as a result.

However, I still found her story compelling, and I kept listening and came to appreciate the woman she is today more than I did at the beginning.

Lakshmi narrates the audiobook version herself. I cannot imaging anyone doing a better job of it. The CD has a bonus PDF file with all the recipes that are included in the book. ( )
  BookConcierge | Jan 20, 2023 |
This book is wild, and mostly wildly disorganized, for which it lost a star. But it was nonetheless enjoyable. I’ve loved Padma Lakshmi for almost no particular reason for almost as long as I can remember, and this book made me realize why. I was a little too young when she was part of the cultural zeitgeist, so I didn’t know many of the details of her personal life that were revealed in this story, which read like an amazing soap opera that I would totally watch, especially if she starred in it. To me, she is a beautiful enigma, and this book is the cipher to figuring out why she’s always been at the periphery of my interest for 10 years—and we he reasons evidently go much deeper than just who she’s been in relationships with it what TV shows she’s been in. This was also the 4th food-related memoir that I’ve read in a row, and the first three all being by professional men chefs, this one blew me out of the water because it broke so completely with the patterns of theirs, and I had no idea what would come next from chapter to chapter. Of her first cookbook, she says that she got the deal mostly because people were interested in what models eat, and there’s some of that sentiment propping up a lot of this book, too, which was a little disappointing. I’m much less interested in how she lost her baby weight, say, than I am in her relationship with her body, and both things are included in this story. She was also so relatively young when she wrote it, so I can’t wait for her next memoir! And I just hope that she decides to write the next one chronologically. ( )
  graceandbenji | Sep 1, 2022 |
My review of this book can be found on my Youtube Vlog at:

https://youtu.be/DmEY-gOk28Y

Enjoy! ( )
  booklover3258 | Jul 7, 2021 |
nonfiction/memoir - cookbook author and food network show host talks about growing up as an immigrant, becoming or trying to become a fashion model, falling in and out of love with Salman Rushdie, struggling with endometriosis (one of those diseases where she assumed her chronic pain was normal but it turned out to be a serious problem), having a baby (and the custody battle that followed), and finding love again before losing him to brain cancer. She also talks a little about her family's Brahman Hindi traditions, and includes a few of her more traditional recipes. ( )
  reader1009 | Jul 3, 2021 |
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Biography & Autobiography. Cooking & Food. Health & Fitness. Nonfiction. HTML:

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 cameraâ??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 homeâ??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 grandfatherâ??a brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet toothâ??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 familyâ??both the ones we are born to and the ones we createâ??and their endur

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