Padma-Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi the is host of the top-rated TV series Top Chef. She is a former model and known as first successful Indian super model.

Padma provides her own recipes for mouth-watering international fare, perfect for anyone who wants easy, elegant, and unforgettable food.

Padma Lakshmi first gained culinary recognition with her world cookbook, Easy Exotic. Along with some delicious snapshots of Padma caught in the act of cooking, the book features recipes for a delicious low fat diet based upon her own experimentation over the years.

This capacity for creativity is precisely what makes Ms. Lakshmi such a brilliant chef. Perusing the markets by day, her eye for potential taste is uncanny, while her ability to concoct recipes on the fly manifests her natural culinary instincts.

Padma was born in Madras, now Chennai (Tamil Nadu) in a Tamil Iyer family before spending most of her adolescent life in the United States. Her parents’ only child together, Lakshmi is the daughter of a Pfizer executive and his first wife, Vijaya a nurse who currently specializes in suicide prevention. Her parents separated when she was one and divorced a year later. Both parents later remarried.


Padma’s wide and varied TV career has ranged from hosting Italy’s highest rated TV show Domenica In on Rai Television to starring in her own cooking show, The Melting Pot — Padma’s Passport, on The Food Network in the U.S.A.  Padma has also hosted a documentary series called Planet Food (broadcast on The Food Network and worldwide Discovery Channel), in which she journeyed to countries such as Spain and India.

Padma started off her modeling career being shot by the world famous Helmut Newton. It was a distinctive scar on her right arm that drew his eye. She has appeared in magazines such as Vogue (US), Elle (US) and In Style (US) as well as numerous covers, including Cosmopolitan,L’Officiel, and Newsweek. She is one of the first and few models of Indian origin to be known in Milan, Paris and New York. She has walked the runways for Ralph Lauren, Alberta Ferretti, Herve Leger, Valentino and more.

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