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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

Thu Oct 16 | 07:30 PM
NYC Wine & Food Festival Asian Night Market
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New York, NY 
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SYMPHONY SPACE
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NEW YORK, NY 10025-6990
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Tue Nov 04
Salt & Straw
New York, NY 
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Sixth & I
600 I St NW
Washington, DC 
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Mon Nov 10 | 07:30 PM
PITTSBURGH ARTS & LECTURES @Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3738
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Tue Nov 11 | 07:00 PM
Chicago Humanities @Athenaeum Center
2936 N Southport Ave
Chicago, IL 60657
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Books

Padma's All American
Tomatoes for Neela

Events

Thu Oct 16 | 07:30 PM
NYC Wine & Food Festival Asian Night Market
Invesco QQQ Festival Campus in the Seaport
New York, NY 
Google Map

Mon Nov 03 | 07:00 PM
SYMPHONY SPACE
2537 BROADWAY
NEW YORK, NY 10025-6990
Google Map

Tue Nov 04
Salt & Straw
New York, NY 
Google Map

Thu Nov 06 | 07:00 PM
Sixth & I
600 I St NW
Washington, DC 
Google Map

Mon Nov 10 | 07:30 PM
PITTSBURGH ARTS & LECTURES @Carnegie Music Hall
4400 Forbes Ave
Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3738
Google Map

Tue Nov 11 | 07:00 PM
Chicago Humanities @Athenaeum Center
2936 N Southport Ave
Chicago, IL 60657
Google Map

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