Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

New York: Ecco, 2016. T2 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Padma Lakshmi on the special tip in page (page after the front free endpaper) in very good condition in very good dust jacket that is mylar protected. Dust jacket has label on the front, wrinkling, chipping, crease, and some small tears on the edges and corners, some chipping on some sides, vertical line dent on fhe front, some light discoloration and shelf wear. Book cocked and lightly bowed, some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, a few light stains on the front free endpaper, some light discoloration and shelf wear. A VIVID MEMOIR OF FOOD AND FAMILY, SURVIVAL AND TRIUMPH, LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT WE ATE TRACES 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. 9.5"x6.5", 325 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 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 kitchen, ruled by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the Top Chef Judges' Table and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable people who shaped her along the way, from her headstrong mother who flouted conservative Indian convention to make a life in New York, to her Brahmin grandfather - a brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet tooth - to the man seemingly wrong for her in every way who proved to be her truest ally. A memoir rich with sensual prose and punctuated with evocative recipes, it is alive with the scents, tastes, and textures of a life that spans complex geographies both internal and external. Love, Loss, and What We Ate is an intimate and unexpected story of food and family - both the ones we are born to and the ones we create - and their enduring legacies.. Signed by Author. First Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.