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Boesky, Amy
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Fiction
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Penguin Group (USA), Inc.
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English
β 245 KB
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Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir
β Scribed by Lakshmi, Padma
- Book ID
- 109111785
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Year
- 2016
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 398 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780062202611
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β¦ Synopsis
A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi's unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera --a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl's Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron's Heartburn
Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home--and how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. Shuttling between continents as a child, she lived a life of dislocation that would become habit as an adult, never quite at home in the world. And yet, through all her travels, her favorite food remained the simple rice she first ate sitting on the cool floor of her grandmother's kitchen in South India.
Poignant and surprising, Love, Loss, and What We Ate is Lakshmi's extraordinary account of her journey from that humble...
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