3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi You don’t want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what’s out there now does – you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi 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.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there’s something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi 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.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi 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.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi People always comment about my clothes. They don’t think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi 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.
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi 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?
3 December 2020 Padma Lakshmi I think wine is such a big universe that it’s kind of like food – it’s intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.
