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Padma Lakshmi
Indian
Chef
Born:
Sep 1
,
1970
Food
Love
People
Think
Time
You
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I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.
Padma Lakshmi
Character
Me
You
Hide
Better
Naked
Clothes
Vain
Way
Immediately
Adjectives
Put
Raw
Like
Any
Just
Mean
People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.
Padma Lakshmi
Women
People
Strong
Smart
Girl
Pretty
Pretty Girls
Someone
Thrown
Also
Looks
Feminine
Off
Who
I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.
Padma Lakshmi
Cooking
Before
Other
Top
Top Chef
Draw
Eye
About
Area
Had
Learned
Chef
How
Been
Years
Camouflage
Model
Eight
Preferable
Certain
Body
Shows
Seasons
Thing
Two
You don't need expensive classes and all kinds of weird equipment if you really want to be in shape. There are great ways to do it that are very economical, it just takes a time commitment, even if it means waking up a half hour a day before the rest of the household gets up because that's the only time you have.
Padma Lakshmi
Time
Day
Great
You
Commitment
Rest
Half
Before
Ways
Kinds
Classes
Only
Only Time
Shape
Takes
Weird
Economical
Hour
Household
Because
Equipment
Up
Waking
Waking Up
Very
Gets
Just
Expensive
Want
Really
Means
Even
Need
I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.
Padma Lakshmi
Dinner
Girl
Lunch
Kind
About
Finishing
She
Gonna
Cook
Who
Her
Thinks
Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?
Padma Lakshmi
Woman
Smart
Written
Also
Stacked
Where
The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.
Padma Lakshmi
Writing
Bonus
Guess
Something
General
Pursued
Real
Been
Cookbooks
Lucky
Ever
For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.
Padma Lakshmi
Love
Atheist
Live
Enough
Though
Temple
Rituals
Became
Up
Going
Flaming
While
Even
Grown
Now
Grown-Up
I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.
Padma Lakshmi
Love
Good
Fashion
Writing
Before
Clothes
Say
About
Only
Support
Friend
Much
Really
Show
Skirts
Shows
Good Friend
Designer
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?
Padma Lakshmi
Beautiful
Best
Food
You
Else
Invade
Someone
Touching
Make
Without
How
Them
Body
Plate
Actually
Thing
I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?
Padma Lakshmi
Best
Needs
You
Will
Lover
Think
Enough
Otherwise
Secret
Please
Ninety
Out
Tell
Best Friend
Inside
Inside-Out
He
Know
Well
Him
Well Enough
Friend
American
Should
Your
All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.
Padma Lakshmi
You
Impress
Please
Feed
Like
Chefs
Mothers
Want
Eagerness
Jewish
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.
Padma Lakshmi
Food
You
Wine
Think
About
Ritual
Emotional
Like
Courting
Surrounded
Romance
Much
My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.
Padma Lakshmi
Mom
Old
Scared
Never
Allowed
New
Still
Go
Square
Times
Times Square
Now
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.
Padma Lakshmi
Myself
Happy
Jewelry
People
Sense
Tea
Think
Recipe
Would
Would-Be
Give
General
Could
Stuff
Like
Perfume
Piece
Making
Taste
Just
Store
Whether
Lovely
Little
If I Could
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.
Padma Lakshmi
Mom
Single
Young
Other
Kid
Those
Immigrant
India
City
New
Single Mom
Came
Cultures
Up
Very
America
York
New York
New York City
Influenced
Grew
Against
Really
Who
Each
Every country I would go to, even if it was just on a modeling job, I would go to their markets. If I went to Morocco for 'Elle' magazine, I would be in the spice markets during my off time and just come back with a suitcase full of stuff that I really wanted to try.
Padma Lakshmi
Time
Try
Job
Country
Every
Suitcase
Back
Markets
Spice
Would
Would-Be
Magazine
Morocco
Stuff
Come
Go
Off
Modeling
Just
Wanted
Really
Full
Even
I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.
Padma Lakshmi
Women
People
Thought
Young
About
Through
Know
Am
Go
Any
Want
Young Women
Should
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.
Padma Lakshmi
Home
Great
Finish Line
Top
Top Chef
Finish
Put
Empathy
Feel
Come
Make
Vulnerable
Chef
Contestants
Go
Line
Go Home
Very
Whether
Them
Themselves
Away
Right
Right Away
Position
I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.
Padma Lakshmi
Work
Time
Sit
Out
Would
Eat
Could
Around
Oh
Just
Whenever
Want
Work Out
If I Could
One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
Padma Lakshmi
Morning
You
Every
Starts
Out
One Thing
Like
Itches
Get
Stomach
After
Happens
Turkey
Pregnant
Really
Ceremony
Body
Your
Shower
Keep
Butter
Thing
Belly
Stretch
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.
Padma Lakshmi
Nothing
Say
Possible
Wear
Eat
Always
Am
During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.
Padma Lakshmi
Top
Top Chef
Dress
Course
Chef
Sizes
Gain
Used
Two
Filming
Needing
In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.
Padma Lakshmi
Truth
Alone
Family
Me
Parenting
Mother
Daughter
Single
Too
Other
Side
Uncles
Feel
Also
Single Mother
Am
Cousins
Krishna
Aunts
Friends
Loves
Grandmother
Who
Whole
Her
I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings.
Padma Lakshmi
Love
Spices
Made
Earrings
Out
Cast
Real
Lot
Just
Gold
Then
Cook
Use
Actually
I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman. I've created four versions of the front-to-back necklace which actually gives you two necklaces in one. I love the way they swing and catch the light as a woman is walking away. You almost want to pull on it and stop her!
Padma Lakshmi
Love
Beautiful
You
Woman
Light
Most Beautiful
Thought
Back
Way
Gives
Catch
Almost
Most
Parts
Always
Versions
Walking
Stop
Want
Which
Created
Swing
Away
Her
Actually
Four
Necklace
Two
Pull
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