Quote by Padma Lakshmi
The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful pla

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someones body without actually touching them? – Padma Lakshmi

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In truth, I am a single mother. But I dont 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

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From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity. – Padma Lakshmi

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Food
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Im 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

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We all thought of chicken as lean, protein-rich food thats good for weight watching, but the truth is chicken might actually be making us fatter! – Kathy Freston

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I add a lot of citrus to my food and I think that flavors it. And, to me, that what makes it healthier, lower in fat, lower in calories. It adds lots of flavor. Spices, of course. But citrus is definitely kind of my go-to to season and really to really make those flavors, make that food come alive. – Cat Cora

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Wine and cheese are ageless companions, like aspirin and aches, or June and moon, or good people and noble ventures. – M. F. K. Fisher

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I dont feel any pressure to lose weight – and in any case, if I didnt have my food Id be a nasty piece of work and wouldnt be able to function. – Cat Deeley

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The learned compute that seven hundred and seven millions of millions of vibrations have penetrated the eye before the eye can distinguish the tints of a violet. What philosophy can calculate the vibrations of the heart before it can distinguish the colours of love? – Pisistratus Caxton, What Will He Do With It?

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