Recipes from Padma Lakshmi

Sama · Jun 14th, 2007, 22:38

"Top Chef Host Padma’s Indian Cooking

Padma Lakshmi, the cookbook author and host of Bravo’s reality show Top Chef, reveals her own formidable culinary skills at an intimate dinner party.

There’s a saying in Tamil about good cooks: ’Her hand has a sweet aroma to it,’" says Padma Lakshmi, host of the hit Bravo reality show Top Chef, suggesting that the ability to create wonderful meals is a gift that cannot be taught. Then she confesses that her own dishes are sometimes disappointing when she makes them for people she doesn’t like.

Barefoot and happily focused on the task at hand, Padma is dropping pistachios into a skillet of smoldering cumin for a rice pilaf..."

http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/...indian-cooking

Padma was born in Chennai.

The four recipes listed are:

*Crispy Turkey Kathi Rolls with Mint-and-Date Dipping Sauce
* Mint-and-Date Dipping Sauce
* Spinach, Basil and Plum Salad
* Mahimahi Coconut Curry Stew with Carrots and Fennel
* Rice Pilaf with Pistachios and Prunes

lonelyaztec · Jun 15th, 2007, 11:51

The problem with the programs on Popular TV channels is that they get the most good looking and sexy people to host travel shots and cookery shows. I think the hosts lack passion.

It is people who are already in the entertainment industry or the fashion industry who have contacts, get these roles, to anchor programs like this.

Sama · Jun 15th, 2007, 20:02

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Originally Posted by lonelyaztec

The problem with the programs on Popular TV channels is that they get the most good looking and sexy people to host travel shots and cookery shows. I think the hosts lack passion.

lonelyaztec, have you seen many American cooking shows? We have the Food Network and many of those hosts are REAL PEOPLE....Paula Dean has a large personality with an even LARGER body; Rachel Ray never went to cooking school; Bobby Flay made his own way in the chef scene; Rick Bayless, a world-class chef in my hometown also never went to cooking school, he grew up behind the stove in his father's restaurant.

ananda2193 · Jun 15th, 2007, 20:21

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Originally Posted by YogaGal

lonelyaztec, have you seen many American cooking shows? We have the Food Network and many of those hosts are REAL PEOPLE....Paula Dean has a large personality with an even LARGER body; Rachel Ray never went to cooking school; Bobby Flay made his own way in the chef scene; Rick Bayless, a world-class chef in my hometown also never went to cooking school, he grew up behind the stove in his father's restaurant.

Let's not forget also, Emeril, Sara Moulton, Julia Child, etc.. Not exactly beauty queens.
But I agree with Lonelyaztec that most people on t.v., e.g. Survivor are there because their pretty.
And I must admit, I like watching Padma Laksmi because she's hot

, not because of what she's cooking. Though I love the asian style food she cooks.

Sama · Jun 15th, 2007, 20:29

yes, of course! Emeril and Mario Batali are no light-weights!

and foodandwine.com is rather foo-foo anyway...I'd rather get down and dirty in the kitchen...I'm not a dinner party type of gal....

but hey, I'll eat anyone's Indian food, I don't care who makes it!

Jun 14th, 2007, 22:38	#1
Sama a pain in the asana Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart Posts: 5,354	Recipes from Padma Lakshmi "Top Chef Host Padma’s Indian Cooking Padma Lakshmi, the cookbook author and host of Bravo’s reality show Top Chef, reveals her own formidable culinary skills at an intimate dinner party. There’s a saying in Tamil about good cooks: ’Her hand has a sweet aroma to it,’" says Padma Lakshmi, host of the hit Bravo reality show Top Chef, suggesting that the ability to create wonderful meals is a gift that cannot be taught. Then she confesses that her own dishes are sometimes disappointing when she makes them for people she doesn’t like. Barefoot and happily focused on the task at hand, Padma is dropping pistachios into a skillet of smoldering cumin for a rice pilaf..." http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/...indian-cooking Padma was born in Chennai. The four recipes listed are: Crispy Turkey Kathi Rolls with Mint-and-Date Dipping Sauce Mint-and-Date Dipping Sauce * Spinach, Basil and Plum Salad * Mahimahi Coconut Curry Stew with Carrots and Fennel * Rice Pilaf with Pistachios and Prunes __________________ *My India, 2005-2008* BE THE REVOLUTION

Jun 15th, 2007, 11:51	#2
lonelyaztec Maha Guru Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Bangalore Posts: 1,408	The problem with the programs on Popular TV channels is that they get the most good looking and sexy people to host travel shots and cookery shows. I think the hosts lack passion. It is people who are already in the entertainment industry or the fashion industry who have contacts, get these roles, to anchor programs like this. __________________ Aztec My photoblog

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Sama a pain in the asana Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: the India inside my heart Posts: 5,354	yes, of course! Emeril and Mario Batali are no light-weights! and foodandwine.com is rather foo-foo anyway...I'd rather get down and dirty in the kitchen...I'm not a dinner party type of gal.... but hey, I'll eat anyone's Indian food, I don't care who makes it!

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