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- Padma Lakshmi (2010)
Recorded on the conference floor of BlogHer ’10, SIDEWALKS host Cindy Rhodes interviews Padma about her cooking career, working on Top Chef and her other side projects.

As party of the promotional tour with Hillshire Farm, Padma gives moms' (and dads') creative new lunch suggestions that is fresh and tasty for their kids by selecting the right ingredients.


Mini-Biography
Born in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, Padma Lakshmi is an internationally-known food expert, model, actress and  author.

She is best known as the host and judge of Bravo's Top Chef since season two.

Originally known as the first internationally successful Indian supermodel, Padma started modeling while an exchange student in Spain with Clark University. Padma established herself as a food expert early on in her career. She hosted two cooking shows and writing a best-selling cookbook "Easy Exotic," for which she won the International Versailles Event for best cookbook by a first time writer. She followed that with her second cookbook, "Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet."

As a writer, Padma has contributed to such magazines as "American Vogue," "Gourmet," and British and American "Harper's Bazaar."

As an actress, Padma appeared in a variety of TV and movie roles: as Sylk in "Glitter" with Mariah Carey; as Shiela Bardez in "Boom"; as Geeta in "The Mistress of Spices," as alien princess Kaitaama in an episode of Star Trek: Enterprise; as Madhuvanthi in an episode of Sharpe; as Princess Bithia in the TV miniseries "The Ten Commandments." She also appeared as herself in 30 Rock.

Recently, Padma started a namesake jewelry line and is the new face of Pantene's Nature Fusion line..

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