'I hung around her and at the hem of her sari,' author and Top Chef host Padma Lakshmi says of her grandmother. 'I learned about all of these spices and how to use them and what they did, whether you could taste them or not in any dish.' (nprfreshair)
Lakshmi travels around the U.S. to learn how foods from different cultures contribute to American cuisine. Among the places she visits: New York, to talk to her own mother about finding Indian ingredients and produce in Queens decades ago.On being one of the only South Asian models in American and European fashion magazines
I was always the only Indian girl in any casting I went to. And I do think that a lot of the attention I got was because there were no other Indian models. I mean, since then, there are many Indian models and they've done way more work than I ever did as a model. But I think just being the first gave me a little bit of a cachet.On feeling better about her body with age
And to this day, I still have problems sitting in the sun or playing or in or swimming in the sun because I just feel like it doesn't seem right. I mean, on the one hand, I think it saved me because they don't have a lot of sun damage for my age. But on the other hand, those things that get told to you as you're a young girl and a teenager, they stick with you all your life.
On being sent back to India at age 7, shortly after telling her mother that her stepfather's brother had touched her inappropriately And so I was on a plane very quickly to India, where I stayed for a year and a half. I did all of third grade and part of fourth grade in India. And my impression was that I spoke up about what happened to me and I was sent away. As a 7-year old, that is what it felt like. That is the evidence I had. If my mother said,"I'm sending you away to keep you safe," it certainly didn't [come across] in any deep way. And so I think that went very deep.
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