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
You dont want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of whats out there now does – you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree. – Padma Lakshmi
I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply. – Padma Lakshmi
I know most people use their phones to tell time, but theres something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece. – Padma Lakshmi
It is extraordinary how the house and the simplest possessions of someone who has been left become so quickly sordid. Even the stain on the coffee cup seems not coffee but the physical manifestation of ones inner stain, the fatal blot that from the beginning had marked one for ultimate aloneness. – Coleman Dowell