Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

Love, Loss, and What We Ate is a poignant memoir that takes readers on an unforgettable journey of food, family, survival, and triumph.

With vivid prose and evocative recipes, Padma Lakshmi's extraordinary account chronicles her journey from a childhood of dislocation to the judges' table of Top Chef and beyond.

Shuttling between continents as a child, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love, comfort, and forge a sense of home.

Through the fierce devotion of remarkable people who shaped her along the way, including her headstrong mother and brilliant engineer grandfather, Lakshmi's memoir is alive with the scents, tastes, and textures of a life that spans complex geographies both internal and external.

A must-read for anyone who loves food, family, or an inspiring story of survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate is an intimate and unexpected story of the enduring legacies of food and family.