A collection of the year’s top food and travel writing, selected by the trailblazing New York Times bestselling author and Emmy-nominated host of Taste the Nation and Top Chef Padma Lakshmi.

The Best American Travel Writing is a yearly anthology of travel literature published in United States magazines. It was started in 2000 as part of The Best American Series published by Houghton Mifflin.

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Padma guest-edited and wrote the introduction for the 2021 edition.

Padma's first cookbook features a collection of low-fat recipes that are delicious and simple to prepare.

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Easy Exotic was awarded the Best First Book award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards.

Padma and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator, Juana Martinez-Neal, team up in this celebration of food and family.

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in 2022, Tomatoes for Neela won Best in the World in the D03 Children's category for the Gourmand Awards.

Tangy Tart Hot & Sweet is both a culinary and personal scrapbook of Padma's life. Inspired by her travels to some of the most secluded corners of the planet, Lakshmi shares the origins and secrets of her latest recipes for simple to prepare, international cuisine.

An A-to-Z compendium of spices, herbs, salts, peppers, and blends, with beautiful photography and a wealth of explanation, history, and cooking advice.

A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s Heartburn.