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Padma Lakshmi

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Padma Parvati Lakshmi is an Indian-American author, activist, actress, model, philanthropist, and television host. She hosted the cooking competition program Top Chef on Bravo continuously from 2006 to 2023. For her work, she received a Primetime Emmy nomination for Outstanding Reality Host in 2009 and 2020 through 2022. She is also the creator, host, and executive producer of the critically acclaimed docuseries Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, which premiered in June 2020 on Hulu and explores the food and culture of immigrant and indigenous communities across America. In 2022, Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition won a James Beard Foundation Award in the Visual Media - Long Form category.

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Walter Isaacson, Michelle Obama, Sylvie Simmons, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roger Ebert, Barack Obama, Wayne W. Dyer, Bryan Stevenson, Felicia Day, Cheryl Strayed, Susie Kelly, Frank McCourt, Regina Calcaterra, Susannah Cahalan, John McCarthy, Viktor Emil Frankl, William Manchester, Ben Macintyre, Mark Ryan, Harold Schechter, Paul Auster, Chris Kyle, Jim DeFelice, Scott McEwen, J. Randy Taraborrelli, William J. Mann, Chris Hadfield, George Walker Bush, John Feinstein, Tim Tebow, David Maraniss, Eddie Huang, Jeff Guinn, Saima Wahab, Fred Kaplan, Paul Kalanithi, Kim Barker, Sonia Sotomayor, Jesmyn Ward, Helen Macdonald, Carole Radziwill, Bob Drury, Jeff Hobbs, Rick Ross, Alexandra Fuller, Howard E. Wasdin, Stephanie Land, Nora Ephron, Cliff Sims, Peter Ames Carlin, Tom Robbins, Greg Sestero, Andy Cohen, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Timothy Egan, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, Tom Ryan, David Carr, Jonathan Eig, Mark Owen, Brad Meltzer, Seth Rogen, Jessica Buchanan, Eric Metaxas, Michelle Zauner, Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Steven Naifeh, William Stevenson, Ishmael Beah, Ron Chernow, Pat Conroy, Anna Quindlen, Erik Larson, Tara Westover, Caitlin Moran, Malala Yousafzai, Neil Patrick Harris, Jean P. Sasson, Laura Hillenbrand, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Randy Pausch, Elizabeth Warren, Marja Mills, Kerri Rawson, Janice Dean, Andrew Hodges, Robert K. Massie, Bill O'Reilly, Piper Kerman, Rob Lowe, Thomas Buergenthal, Jon Meacham, Kimberly Rae Miller, Madeleine Korbel Albright, Kathy Griffin, Kai Bird, Padma Lakshmi, James Wolcott, Jenna Miscavige Hill, Kwame Onwuachi, Wednesday Martin, Ashley C. Ford, Michelle Burford, Gloria Steinem, Penny Marshall, Alex Kershaw, Morris S. Schwartz, Martin Pistorius, Bob Ryan, Curt Warner, Lily Koppel, Jane Maas, Adam Makos, Holly Madison, Jennifer Lopez, Qian Julie Wang, J. B. West, Martin Short, Billy Crystal, Scott Eyman, James MacGregor Burns, Cicely Tyson, Brooke Shields, Derek Hough, Heather Poole, Michael Schofield, Wil Haygood, Marcia Clark, Kristina Jones, David Axelrod, Kelly Oxford, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Zoglin, Nancy Rooks, Henry Bushkin, Kate Larson, Edith Hahn-Beer, Christopher P. Andersen, Daniel B. Smith, Charles L. Mee, Joseph R. Biden, Jeanne Darst, Mary Tyler Moore, Paul Anka, Hope Solo, Jeff Bauman, Aasif Mandvi, Richard Norton Smith, Ben Carson, Viola Davis, Jane Pauley, Marie Osmond, Scott Thorson, Leon E. Panetta, Jon Robison, David G. McCullough, Peyton Manning, Claire Prentice, Jeanne Cooper, Fiona Carnarvon (ǂc Countess of), Teri Cheney, Naoki Higashida (ǂd), Shirley Jones (Vocalist), Jose Rene Martinez, Mario Winik
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Walter Isaacson, Michelle Obama, Sylvie Simmons, Ta-Nehisi Coates, Roger Ebert, Barack Obama, Wayne W. Dyer, Bryan Stevenson, Felicia Day, Cheryl Strayed, Susie Kelly, Frank McCourt, Regina Calcaterra, Susannah Cahalan, John McCarthy, Viktor Emil Frankl, William Manchester, Ben Macintyre, Mark Ryan, Harold Schechter, Paul Auster, Chris Kyle, Jim DeFelice, Scott McEwen, J. Randy Taraborrelli, William J. Mann, Chris Hadfield, George Walker Bush, John Feinstein, Tim Tebow, David Maraniss, Eddie Huang, Jeff Guinn, Saima Wahab, Fred Kaplan, Paul Kalanithi, Kim Barker, Sonia Sotomayor, Jesmyn Ward, Helen Macdonald, Carole Radziwill, Bob Drury, Jeff Hobbs, Rick Ross, Alexandra Fuller, Howard E. Wasdin, Stephanie Land, Nora Ephron, Cliff Sims, Peter Ames Carlin, Tom Robbins, Greg Sestero, Andy Cohen, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey, Mindy Kaling, Timothy Egan, Arianna Stassinopoulos Huffington, Tom Ryan, David Carr, Jonathan Eig, Mark Owen, Brad Meltzer, Seth Rogen, Jessica Buchanan, Eric Metaxas, Michelle Zauner, Patricia Daniels Cornwell, Steven Naifeh, William Stevenson, Ishmael Beah, Ron Chernow, Pat Conroy, Anna Quindlen, Erik Larson, Tara Westover, Caitlin Moran, Malala Yousafzai, Neil Patrick Harris, Jean P. Sasson, Laura Hillenbrand, Doris Kearns Goodwin, Randy Pausch, Elizabeth Warren, Marja Mills, Kerri Rawson, Janice Dean, Andrew Hodges, Robert K. Massie, Bill O'Reilly, Piper Kerman, Rob Lowe, Thomas Buergenthal, Jon Meacham, Kimberly Rae Miller, Madeleine Korbel Albright, Kathy Griffin, Kai Bird, Padma Lakshmi, James Wolcott, Jenna Miscavige Hill, Kwame Onwuachi, Wednesday Martin, Ashley C. Ford, Michelle Burford, Gloria Steinem, Penny Marshall, Alex Kershaw, Morris S. Schwartz, Martin Pistorius, Bob Ryan, Curt Warner, Lily Koppel, Jane Maas, Adam Makos, Holly Madison, Jennifer Lopez, Qian Julie Wang, J. B. West, Martin Short, Billy Crystal, Scott Eyman, James MacGregor Burns, Cicely Tyson, Brooke Shields, Derek Hough, Heather Poole, Michael Schofield, Wil Haygood, Marcia Clark, Kristina Jones, David Axelrod, Kelly Oxford, Debbie Reynolds, Richard Zoglin, Nancy Rooks, Henry Bushkin, Kate Larson, Edith Hahn-Beer, Christopher P. Andersen, Daniel B. Smith, Charles L. Mee, Joseph R. Biden, Jeanne Darst, Mary Tyler Moore, Paul Anka, Hope Solo, Jeff Bauman, Aasif Mandvi, Richard Norton Smith, Ben Carson, Viola Davis, Jane Pauley, Marie Osmond, Scott Thorson, Leon E. Panetta, Jon Robison, David G. McCullough, Peyton Manning, Claire Prentice, Jeanne Cooper, Fiona Carnarvon (ǂc Countess of), Teri Cheney, Naoki Higashida (ǂd), Shirley Jones (Vocalist), Jose Rene Martinez, Mario Winik