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Spiced Candied Pecans

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Kichidi

Ragu

Chipotle Chicken

Black-Eyed Peas over Polenta

Sweet Potatoes and Lentils in Coconut Milk

Tamarind Mojito

Kumquat & Ginger Chutney

Padma’s Apple Cake

Padma’s Mexican Mac & Cheese

Padma’s Chamomile Hot Toddy

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“I would like to see the food section of papers

“I would like to see the food section of papers like The New York Times not be so white. I would like to see Condé Nast have more editors who are not white. That’s a real, concrete ask that I’m making. You have to make sure you’re hiring writers who have a different perspective than the rest of your staff, because that’s good for your newspaper or magazine. I would like them to consider balancing whom they interview, even bending over backward a little bit, to even out our presence.”⁣
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Thank you @nytmag for this thoughtful feature on my life & new project “Taste the Nation” on @hulu. Link in bio for the full article. #tastethenation 📷: @mamadivisuals

Daily reminder 👈🏽 via @hebontheweb

Daily reminder 👈🏽 via @hebontheweb

We were nominated for FOUR Emmys for @bravotopchef

We were nominated for FOUR Emmys for @bravotopchef! AND I was nominated for hosting!!⁣⁣
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I’m so proud of the work we’ve done on the show over the past 17(!) seasons. It is a team effort from @tomcolicchio, @gailsimmonseats to the producer, Doneen Arquines (@doneen123), the director: Ari Boles, @austinsipes, our culinary producer Sandee @sandeebirdsong, Darren and the sound dept @worthypicks_lifestyle, our lighting and editing teams, as well as my personal team: @bobscott200, @amennyc, @jeaniesyfu and @sameolebs 💖⁣⁣
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It was an emotional season for everyone. The camaraderie among the contestants this year was really beautiful to see, and I can’t tell you how thrilled I was that @chefmelissaking won. ⁣⁣
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Her meal in Italy where she seamlessly synthesized Italian cuisine with her Chinese heritage was brilliant and even made the Italian butcher, Dario Cecchini cry! @gg30000 was also a standout in Restaurant Wars highlighting his Haitian heritage.⁣⁣
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Every year we strive to be better than the last. I was so honored to have the great Chef @nikinakayama and @carolerikaiida from @nnakarestaurant teach us about kaiseki and will continue to advocate for guest judges that reflect the diversity in our communities.⁣⁣
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Thanks again to the @televisionacad. Who knows? Maybe this is our year! 👩🏾‍🍳

TW: police brutality⁣⁣ ⁣⁣ #challengeaccept

TW: police brutality⁣⁣
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#challengeaccepted
Here are four women we should be lifting up:⁣⁣
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Breonna Taylor (Louisville, KY)⁣⁣
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A beloved 26 year-old EMT, Breonna was murdered during a "no knock" raid when plainclothes officers shot her 8 times in her home.⁣⁣
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Status: @danieljaycameron's office is still reviewing the #BreonnaTaylor case. Only one officer was fired. ⁣⁣
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Sandra Bland (Waller County, TX)⁣⁣
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28 year-old Bland was pulled over for failing to signal a lane change. After refusing to put out her cigarette, Officer Brian Encina pointed a stun gun at her face, saying “I will light your ass up", dragged her out of the car & took her into custody. Sandra was found hanging in a jail cell three days later. ⁣⁣
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Status: Encina was indicted on a charge of perjury on the false claim that removed #SandraBland from her car to more safely conduct a traffic investigation. This was later dismissed in exchange for the trooper’s promise that he would never again work in law enforcement. Sandra’s family settled in court.⁣⁣
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Natasha McKenna (Fairfax, VA)⁣⁣
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This 37 year-old mother with bipolar disorder/schizophrenia was taken from a hospital psychiatric ward & jailed in Fairfax for previously assaulting an officer during a schizophrenic episode. She was completely naked & in an episode when she was “extracted” from her cell & pinned to the ground by several officers. @fairfaxcountypd put her head in a hood, left the rest of her body exposed & tased her 4 times with 50,000 volts. ⁣⁣

Status: The deputies responsible for the death of #NatashaMcKenna faced no criminal charges. ⁣⁣Her family settled in court.
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Michelle Cusseaux- (Phoenix, AZ)⁣⁣
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Michelle, a 50 year-old woman with bipolar disorder/schizophrenia was fixing her door when an officer Percy Dupra, came to do a mental health wellness check. She spoke with them through the gate, but refused to leave her home or consent to their entry, saying she was fine. They entered, Officer Dupra saw Michelle holding a hammer & shot her. ⁣⁣
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Status: #MichelleCusseaux mother, Frances Garrett changed @phoenixpolice response to mental health calls. Dupra was demoted.

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A little lightness on this Sunday afternoon 🎸✨

👉🏽 @adamjk

We need to talk to our children about this moment

We need to talk to our children about this moment and the meaning behind Black Lives Matter. We need to arm them with information, give them the tools and the language to help them address the injustices they see.
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I look at the picture of my daughter and her friend Cassius that sits on our front table. I think of how different their experiences will be, solely because of assumptions that have nothing to do with them. I have looked at that picture every day as I go out in the morning: two innocent children, full of possibility.⁣⁣⁣⁣
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Kenya Young, Executive Producer of @npr Morning Edition on giving her sons "the talk": ⁣
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“I'll never forget there was a time — the kids wanted to go to the park. This was right around the time of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling. My third son was just born. And I had many moments where I was holding him or nursing him and crying as I did so. Because, while I loved this little bundle of joy immensely, also just the amount of fear and worry for who I just brought into the world again, another Black son, and the burdens that I have to carry with that again. It was really raw for me around that time.⁣⁣⁣⁣
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I remember the kids asking to go to the park and the laundry list of what I had to tell them: 'Don't wear your hood. Don't put your hands in your pocket. If you get stopped, don't run. Put your hands up. Don't make a lot of moves. Tell them your mother works for NPR.' I mean, it just went on and on.⁣⁣⁣⁣
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This time around, it's been more about what's not fair. You know, 'This just isn't fair, you guys. But this is the way the world is. This is the way America is right now. It's the way it's been for a long time. And I can't lie to you, I don't think it's going to change in your lifetime. And it's just not fair for us to have to live like this.'⁣⁣⁣⁣
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I live in this every day. You may live it in the moment when it happens. But it can slowly fade away for some people because life goes on. And it's not your life experience. It is my life experience. It is my boys' life experience. It does not go away. And the sad part is, within the next couple of weeks, we'll have another one.⁣⁣⁣”

“The man in this Portland video is Christopher D

“The man in this Portland video is Christopher David.⁣⁣
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A Navy veteran, he tells us he went to the protests for the first time to ask officers about the constitution.⁣⁣
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He said his fingers are broken and he needs surgery.”⁣ - Mike Baker, @nytimes correspondent⁣
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🚨 Trump’s deployment of federal agents: @cbpgov and @usmarshalshq in Portland to “defend monuments and federal property” is dramatically escalating violence and chaos in the streets.⁣
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🚨 Next he is sending 100 federal agents to Kansas City (which the mayor @quinton_lucas learned about via Twitter)⁣
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🚨 The Department of Homeland Security (@dhsgov) is planning to send 150 federal agents to Chicago this week, @chicagotribune reported Monday.

No buttholes were harmed during the filming of thi

No buttholes were harmed during the filming of this show. Remembering the joy of going on a food tour of SF’s Chinatown with @aliwong 😂 link in bio to her episode of ‘Taste the Nation’ on @hulu ⁣
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#aliwong #tastethenation #chinatown #bayarea

😂😂😂 see my stories for a conversation wit

😂😂😂 see my stories for a conversation with @tanfrance

“You are a light. You are the light. Never let a

“You are a light. You are the light. Never let anyone—any person or any force—dampen, dim or diminish your light. ⁣⁣⁣
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Study the path of others to make your way easier and more abundant. Lean toward the whispers of your own heart, discover the universal truth, and follow its dictates. […] ⁣⁣⁣
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Release the need to hate, to harbor division, and the enticement of revenge. Release all bitterness. Hold only love, only peace in your heart, knowing that the battle of good to overcome evil is already won. ⁣⁣⁣
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Choose confrontation wisely, but when it is your time don't be afraid to stand up, speak up, and speak out against injustice. ⁣⁣⁣
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And if you follow your truth down the road to peace and the affirmation of love, if you shine like a beacon for all to see, then the poetry of all the great dreamers and philosophers is yours to manifest in a nation, a world community, and a Beloved Community that is finally at peace with itself.” ⁣⁣⁣
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- Rep. John Lewis⁣
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#JohnLewis

TW: depictions of racist violence ⁣⁣⁣ ⁣⁣

TW: depictions of racist violence ⁣⁣⁣
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Six years ago today Eric Garner was brutally murdered for selling “loosie” cigarettes outside of a convenience store in Staten Island, NY.⁣⁣⁣
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He was killed by then 29 year-old Daniel Pantaleo with an illegal chokehold in broad daylight.⁣⁣⁣
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Eric’s murder is the result of many systemic problems with the @nypd, including a “broken windows” policing strategy of disproportionately patrolling/harassing low-income communities and focusing on ”visible signs of disorder — like graffiti, loitering, panhandling —“ with the supposed intent of preventing more serious crime. (@npr) ⁣⁣⁣
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What this does instead is allow the police to patrol, harass and persecute Black and Brown people for minor offenses to fill a quota system of arrests. From there folks either: get caught in a cash bail system they can’t pay out of, get sent to Riker’s like Kalief Browder, serve time or in Eric’s case are killed.⁣⁣⁣
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Instead of being fired immediately, “the officer who murdered Eric, Daniel Pantaleo has been taking home a six-figure salary with overtime almost every year since killing Garner in 2014 and has had his base pay increased at least twice -- and the other officers who engaged in misconduct have also remained on the force.” - @changethenypd⁣⁣.⁣
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Pantaleo was finally fired late last year but was found innocent of committing a crime in killing Eric. ⁣
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We demand justice for Eric and change in the @nypd, much more than the recent empty gesture of allocating $1 billion from the police budget to the Department of Education to cover in-school officers.⁣⁣⁣
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@changethenypd has been doing great work in their community for years. Follow them and donate if you can. ⁣⁣
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#JusticeforEricGarner #RossGay

Me and #littlehands on a trip to DC last year. ⁣

Me and #littlehands on a trip to DC last year. ⁣
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There are 23 Senate seats up for election this November including: ⁣⁣
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Mitch McConnell (KY)⁣⁣
Susan Collins (ME)⁣⁣
Lindsey Graham (SC)⁣⁣
Tom Cotton (AR)⁣⁣
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Check your voter registration and let’s take our power back 💪🏿💪🏾💪🏽💪🏼💪🏻 Link in bio. #tbt

@wkamaubell has been out here teaching anti-racism

@wkamaubell has been out here teaching anti-racism for years with his Emmy award-winning show: The United Shades of America on @cnn.⁣
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Ever charming and funny, W. Kamau Bell exposes the underbelly of American history and how that history repeats itself and affects racial justice/govt policies today.⁣
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In discussions of anti-Blackness in this country, let’s invest in and support Black thinkers and creatives who speak from their lived experience instead of getting our info distilled from other sources.

I was tagged in such a lovely post about my memoir

I was tagged in such a lovely post about my memoir “Love, Loss, and What We Ate.” ⁣⁣
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Thank you so much for this @jt_pantalon. It’s notes like this that remind me why I write, and why I fight. You made my week!⁣⁣ (I’m linking to my book in bio 📚)
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Their caption: “Having loved much of #tastethenation, I really wanted to read more of @padmalakshmi's work and decided to pick up her memoir. ⁣
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So many of her stories moved me- the day her daughter ate her first solid foods & was blessed by family in Chennai, the nights she leaned into loving a partner that was dying- but one thing in particular stood out to me: the way she wraps words around the kind of mundane, everyday misogyny so many of us experience. ⁣⁣⁣
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She details, unflinchingly, how it feels to wade through that violence, while also capturing moments of beauty & joy that extend beyond its reach. ⁣⁣⁣
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Her words got me thinking about the world I want to fight for--- where every survivor gets to heal in all the ways they need, where Black and Brown women can thrive. ⁣⁣⁣
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I'm grateful to Padma for reminding me why we continue to fight and what becomes possible when we do. This piece is dedicated to her. ⁣” ⁣⁣

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