Padma Lakshmi

“I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.”

“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.”

“we eat for our stomachs, but we hunger with our hearts.”

“It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.”

“I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.”

“I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.”

“I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.”