A review by sarahanne8382
Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir by Padma Lakshmi

3.0

The opening section of the TV food personality's memoir was so beautifully crafted, and I think anyone who suffers from chronic illness can find a lot to identify with in her sections about suffering from endometreosis. However, even though Laksmi shows some talent for writing, her editor needed to use a stronger hand here. This book should have been shorter, and maybe then Lakshmi wouldn't have come off as quite so vapid. Sure, she's a woman in entertainment, so appearance has to matter to her in a professional sense, but for those of us not in the industry, she just comes off as incredibly vain, while also being a better than average writer. Still, her story has plenty of interesting parts (growing up in India, NYC, & California, modeling all around Europe, getting to travel around the world for her cooking shows) to it and she's a good enough writer that I stuck with it.

If you're a Top Chef fan, you'll probably want to check this out.