Padma Lakshmi Quotes

I always loved my bangles, I can't remember a time when I didn't have a bangle on.

I know most people use their phones to tell time, but there's something very romantic and beautiful about a timepiece.

Where is it written that a smart woman can't also be stacked?

I love clothes, but really I don't have that much to say about skirts. Before I was writing, I went to fashion shows only when the designer was a good friend and I was there to show support.

The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

Beauty is no accomplishment on its own. It's what you do with it.

I've always had a fantasy to write a cookbook, because everyone wants to know what a model eats.

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

Flowers die and wine gets consumed. Both are lovely. I appreciate both. Wine and roses. I actually had someone bring me a lobe of foie gras once.

An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night's sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.

I'm a sucker for fried chicken - I really love it.

It doesn't matter how precisely the onion is cut as long as the person chewing it is happy.

Women's voices not being heard is the root of many of the problems of the world.

I'm not attached to things at all. I'm very lucky to have quite a few beautiful things, but if I look back at my life, I was often happiest when I had very little.

People are thrown off by someone who looks feminine, but is also strong. It's not that pretty girls aren't smart, it's that women aren't strong.

In a way that somebody else converts to Judaism or becomes a Hare Krishna, I belong to the church of fried chicken.

You don't want your jewelry to make you look fat. A lot of what's out there now does - you just wind up looking like a Christmas tree.

I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction.

I love seafood. I'm not a vegetarian but I'm probably a pescetarian.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

All chefs are like Jewish mothers. They want to feed you and feed you and impress you. It's an eagerness to please.

People always comment about my clothes. They don't think a fashionable woman can love food and be knowledgeable and actually cook.

During the course of filming 'Top Chef,' I gain 15 lbs., so I'm used to needing two dress sizes.

I'm the kind of girl who thinks about what she's gonna cook for dinner when she's finishing her lunch.

I think wine is such a big universe that it's kind of like food - it's intimidating to a lot of people, myself included.

Even the fried chicken is great cold.

I really like to sometimes go into food detox and eat very simply.

India's had two groovy moments. Once when the Beatles went to India and now when Madonna has embraced yoga.

I work out all the time! I don't just sit around and eat burgers whenever I want. Oh, if I could I probably would, but I don't.

The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.

I grew up a vegetarian. Then, because I grew up in the states, I started slowly eating meat. First it was bologna sandwiches, or pepperoni on pizza.

I really love fried chicken.

I don't look at ratings until somebody tells me.

I am a sufferer of endometriosis. I didn't want any young women to go through what I went through. I thought that people should know about it.

There are two schools of fried chicken. One is brining in salted water and the other is soaking in either buttermilk or milk. I just combine the two.

If you have children in your house you have Frosted Flakes.

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

Don't use a different dish for every single ingredient. If you've got three ingredients that go in at the same time, put them all in the same plate. That way you have just one plate to dump in.

Most of cooking is the labor of chopping. Give yourself a break. Pretend you're on a cooking show and have all your ingredients lined up for you.

I was lucky to have a successful career as a model, but that was just a way to pay off my college loans.

I think a great classic watch is the first staple every woman should invest in.

The great thing about living today is that there is this thing called the Interweb, and you can just look up anything.

Wine, like food, is so emotional. If you think about it, so much of the courting ritual is surrounded by wine and food. There's a built-in romance to wine.

If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.

I've always thought the back is one of the most beautiful parts of a woman.

I have a great career, and I have my daughter. Sio what I don't have is not as important to as what I do have.

I'm still amazed at how much people are willing to humiliate themselves to be on TV.

Whenever I'm in sync with the trends, it's always an accident. I still love wearing clothes I've had for ten years. I think understated luxury is the chicest thing.

Every city has a Donald Trump; ours is just the Trumpiest.

I always think, after the second glass of wine, you should be putting something in your stomach.