Bio
Emmy-nominated Padma Lakshmi, an 吃瓜直播 Artist Ambassador for immigrants鈥� rights and women鈥檚 rights, is internationally known as a food expert, model, actress, and best-selling author, as well as the recipient of the 2016 NECO Ellis Island Medal of Honor and Variety鈥檚 2018 Karma award. Lakshmi serves as host and an executive producer of Bravo鈥檚 Emmy award-winning Top Chef, which is currently in its 16th season.
Lakshmi established herself as a food expert early in her career, having hosted two successful cooking shows and writing the best-selling Easy Exotic, which won the 鈥淏est First Book鈥� award at the 1999 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Lakshmi followed this success with the publication of her second cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet. In 2016, she released her food memoir, The New York Times best-selling Love, Loss and What We Ate, which also won 鈥淏est Lifestyle, Body & Soul鈥� at the 2017 Gourmand World Cookbook Awards, followed by The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs. In Spring of 2018, Padma collaborated with MAC Cosmetics for a worldwide capsule collection called #MACPadma. She is also co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America and was recently named a Visiting Scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
In her empowering for The New York Times, Lakshmi added her voice to the #MeToo movement.