@article{745597, recid = {745597}, author = {Lakshmi, Padma.}, title = {Love, loss, and what we ate /}, pages = {325 pages ;}, note = {Includes recipes.}, abstract = {Television personality Padma Lakshmi examines "her journey from [a humble family kitchen], led by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judges' table of Top Chef 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"--Amazon.com.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/745597}, }