Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir Audiobook (Free)

A vivid memoir of meals and family, success and triumph, Like, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant youth to a complicated life in front of the camera-a tantalizing mixture of Ruth Reichl’s Tender on the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn

Long before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she found that how exactly we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home-and how we flavor the world even as we on the subject of Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir navigate our method through it. Shuttling between continents as a kid, she resided a life of dislocation that could become habit as an adult, never quite in the home in the world. Yet, through all her moves, her favorite food remained the easy rice she initial ate sitting on the cool ground of her grandmother’s kitchen in South India.

Poignant and amazing, Love, Loss, and What We Ate is normally Lakshmi’s extraordinary accounts of her trip from that humble kitchen, ruled by ferocious and unforgettable women, towards the judges’ desk of Best Chef and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable individuals who shaped her on the way, from her headstrong mom who flouted conservative Indian convention to produce a life in New York, to her Brahmin grandfather-a brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet tooth-to the person seemingly wrong on her behalf in every way who became her truest ally. A memoir rich with sensual prose and punctuated with evocative quality recipes, it really is alive using the scents, tastes, and textures of a existence that spans complicated geographies both inner and external.

Love, Reduction, and What We Ate is an intimate and unexpected story of food and family-both the types we are born to and the ones we create-and their enduring legacies.