MARCH 2016 - AudioFile
The host of “Top Chef” narrates her memoir as if she’s telling her story to a trusted friend. She sounds expressive and vulnerable—revealing mistakes with a tone of regret, letting her love shine through the voices she creates for beloved family members, and enthusing about her passion for food, fashion, and travel. Lakshmi slips in and out of accents as she moves through her childhood in India and the U.S., her modeling career in Europe, her marriage to Salman Rushdie, her move into the world of food and “Top Chef,” her struggles with endometriosis, and the relationships that led to the birth of her daughter. While aspects of Lakshmi’s story have been celebrity gossip fodder, this well-crafted memoir will have broad appeal to listeners interested in remarkable lives. A.F. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
From the Publisher
Startlingly honest… Not only is it a deeply revealing and personal book, but an evocative one filled with lovely turns of phrase.” — Daily Beast
“[A] surprisingly engrossing memoir/tell-all/cookbook.” — AV Club
“[An] appealing new memoir...The savoring of meals and snacks can be described as evocatively as the preparation.” — USA Today
“[An] open, thoughtful memoir.” — Seattle Times
“An absorbing memoir… An intimate, revealing portrait, far different from the woman blazoned in the tabloids.” — Kirkus Reviews
“[A] substantial and edgy memoir, LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT WE ATE, stands out amid the ebb and flow of today’s global celebrity-consciousness as the work of someone seriously dedicated to multiple achievements…. This is a true gem of a memoir for reading, tasting, sharing and learning.” — Book Reporter
“There is more to the memoir than Lakshmi’s turbulent personal life. She also writes lovingly of her mother and extended maternal family in India.” — Los Angeles Times
AV Club
[A] surprisingly engrossing memoir/tell-all/cookbook.
|Los Angeles Times
There is more to the memoir than Lakshmi’s turbulent personal life. She also writes lovingly of her mother and extended maternal family in India.
Book Reporter
[A] substantial and edgy memoir, LOVE, LOSS, AND WHAT WE ATE, stands out amid the ebb and flow of today’s global celebrity-consciousness as the work of someone seriously dedicated to multiple achievements…. This is a true gem of a memoir for reading, tasting, sharing and learning.
USA Today
[An] appealing new memoir...The savoring of meals and snacks can be described as evocatively as the preparation.
Seattle Times
[An] open, thoughtful memoir.
Daily Beast
Startlingly honest… Not only is it a deeply revealing and personal book, but an evocative one filled with lovely turns of phrase.
USA Today
[An] appealing new memoir...The savoring of meals and snacks can be described as evocatively as the preparation.
Los Angeles Times
There is more to the memoir than Lakshmi’s turbulent personal life. She also writes lovingly of her mother and extended maternal family in India.
Stephanie Garber
An absorbing memoir… An intimate, revealing portrait, far different from the woman blazoned in the tabloids.
MARCH 2016 - AudioFile
The host of “Top Chef” narrates her memoir as if she’s telling her story to a trusted friend. She sounds expressive and vulnerable—revealing mistakes with a tone of regret, letting her love shine through the voices she creates for beloved family members, and enthusing about her passion for food, fashion, and travel. Lakshmi slips in and out of accents as she moves through her childhood in India and the U.S., her modeling career in Europe, her marriage to Salman Rushdie, her move into the world of food and “Top Chef,” her struggles with endometriosis, and the relationships that led to the birth of her daughter. While aspects of Lakshmi’s story have been celebrity gossip fodder, this well-crafted memoir will have broad appeal to listeners interested in remarkable lives. A.F. © AudioFile 2016, Portland, Maine
