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Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your ingredients lined up for you.

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Padma Lakshmi
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 1
Actor
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Television Actor
Television Presenter
Madras
Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan
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