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If you have children in your house you have Frosted Flakes.

Padma Lakshmi

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Padma Lakshmi
Age: 54
Born: 1970
Born: September 1
Actor
Author
Model
Television Actor
Television Presenter
Madras
Padma Parvati Lakshmi Vaidynathan
Frosted
Flakes
House
Children

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Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.
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I am as omnivorous as it's possible to be. I always say there's nothing I won't eat and nothing I won't wear.
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Whether I'm making a recipe or a piece of jewelry or a white-rose-and-jasmine tea or the perfume, I like to think of myself as a happy little sorceress, and if I could just have a little general store with all that stuff and give people a sense of my taste, that would be lovely.
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I have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.
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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.
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Each city has its own culinary landscape.
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Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.
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I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.
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The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?
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I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.
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From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.
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I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.
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In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.
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I'm a sucker for fried chicken - I really love it.
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Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.
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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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India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.
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All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
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I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.
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I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
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