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Alexa
May 4, 2023 | 7:12am
How ‘Taste the Nation’ star Padma Lakshmi adds spice to her life.
Dominic Valente
Meals are at Padma Lakshmi from 9am to 5pm or above.
Emmy-nominated “Top Chef” host, celebrated cookbook author and author of “Taste the Nation With Padma Lakshmi” (coming back to Hulu on May 5th for its second season) A creator, she is happy to take her creations home with her.
The Indian-born, New York City-raised star often shares a kitchen with daughter Krishna (and has a great sense of style), but the 13-year-old recently declared her culinary independence.
“She recently stopped cooking with me,” says Lakshmi, 52. have understood. You learn to play tennis and your dad is like Andre Agassi. “
But that doesn’t mean Lakshmi wants breakfast in bed. For Mother’s Day this year, she is “reading the newspaper and drinking lots of tea.”
She also spends her days skating around the neighborhood with her daughter, watching movies together, hanging out the aisles of bookstores and having dinner at one of her favorite restaurants in the East Village, Il Posto Accanto. We want to finish the day by eating.
Here, a professional foodie introduces Alexa to ingredients for a flavorful life.
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Photo by Dominic Valente, Brian Zak, Visko Hatfield, Getty Images, and brand courtesy.
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