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Padma Lakshmi, author portrait
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Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi is an Emmy-nominated food expert, television producer, and New York Times bestselling author. She is the creator of the critically-acclaimed Hulu series Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, and served as host and executive producer of Bravo’s Top Chef for nineteen seasons. She is co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America, a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador and an ACLU Artist Ambassador for immigrants’ rights and women’s rights. She is the author of Easy Exotic, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet, The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs, her New York Times best-selling memoir Love, Loss, and What We Ate, and the best-selling children’s book Tomatoes for Neela.
Padma's All American
Tomatoes for Neela

Tue Dec 09 | 06:30 PM
ASIA SOCIETY x THE CULTURE TREE
725 PARK AVE
NEW YORK, NY 10021-5025
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Padma's All American
Tomatoes for Neela

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Tue Dec 09 | 06:30 PM
ASIA SOCIETY x THE CULTURE TREE
725 PARK AVE
NEW YORK, NY 10021-5025
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