Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi
Padma Lakshmi is an Indian-born American author, actress, model, television host and executive producer. Her debut cookbook Easy Exotic won her the "Best First Book" award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. She has been the host of the US reality television program Top Chef since season two in 2006, for which she received a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Host for a Reality or Reality-Competition Program. In 2010, Top Chef won the Emmy Award for...
NationalityIndian
ProfessionTV Actress
Date of Birth1 September 1970
CityChennai, India
CountryIndia
For a long time, I didn't know what I wanted to be when I grew up. I was desperate to find something that fit me and I just decided that if I could organically make a professional living out of the things that interested me, then I would be a happy person.
I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.
In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...
Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world,
I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.
I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.
I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.
I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.
The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.