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" The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them? "
Padma Lakshmi
Beautiful
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" I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. "
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" I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch. "
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" I love to use a lot of spices when I cook, so we actually cast a real peppercorn in gold and then just made a bead out of it for necklaces and earrings. "
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" I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise. "
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" I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats. "
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" People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook. "
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" Part of my job as a food writer is to describe food. So my work on 'Top Chef,' I feel, is an extension of that. When we give a criticism to the contestant, we want to make sure we tell them why it's not working and why it would work if they did it a different way. "
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" My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go. "
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" During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes. "
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" I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on. "
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" I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety? "
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" One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter. "
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" Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once. "
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" I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other. "
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" My first taste memory is pickle. Even as a kid, I was really weird. I liked chillis. I used to climb up the shelves in my grandmother's pantry. The pickle jar was kept right at the top. One time, I dropped the jar and it broke. I was totally busted. "
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" People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong. "
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