Best 88 quotes of Padma Lakshmi on MyQuotes

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

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

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

Decide which you want to play up: your clothing or your jewelry, but not both. Let one be the star and one the supporting player.

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.

DON'T wear loud clanging bangles at work, it's disruptive and noisy and your coworkers won't appreciate it! Bangles should have a gentle wind-chimey tinkle, not the crash bang of a million pots and pans.

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

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

Even the fried chicken is great cold.

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.

From the simple stringing together of lemon garlands for the goddess Durga, to dividing the prasadam or blessed foods for the children first, I came to associate food not only with feminity, but also with purity and divinity.

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

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.

I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

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

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.

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

If you like a wine that you drink, now with your phone, it's so easy. Just take a picture of the label. You learn about it. You learn where it comes from and what the soil is like and why you like it. And that'll lead you to another wine.

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 have great empathy for all the contestants that come on 'Top Chef,' whether they go home right away or they make it to the finish line. It's a very vulnerable position they put themselves in and I feel for them.

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

I like me better naked. I don't mean that in a vain way... When you put clothes on, you immediately put a character on. Clothes are adjectives, they are indicators. When you don't have any clothes on, it's just you, raw, and you can't hide.

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.

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

I'm an immigrant kid who came to America from India when I was very young and grew up in New York City with a single mom and really was influenced by all of those immigrant cultures bumping up against each other.

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

I'm not of the American ilk that, you know, your lover needs to be your best friend and know you inside out. I think he should know you well enough to please you. Otherwise, what secret will there be to tell him when you're ninety?

I'm not tough. I'm tenacious.

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

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

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

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

I never Tweet about my daughter. Never. I just want to be respectful of her privacy. My job as a mom is to know when to open my mouth and when not to.

In southern Spain, they made me eat a bull's testicles. They were really garlicky, which I don't like. I prefer to take a bull by the horns, not by, um...

In truth, I am a single mother. But I don't feel alone at all in parenting my daughter. Krishna has a whole other side of her family who loves her, too. And so Krishna is parented by me, but also by her grandmother and aunts and cousins and uncles and friends.

I really love fried chicken.

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

I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.

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

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

I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with no bedtime. I spend the next four hours catching up on reading, e-mails, and other adult pursuits until I collapse for good until sunrise.

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

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

I was the first Indian model to have a career in Paris, Milan and New York. I am the first one to admit I was a novelty.

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.

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.

Miami, which has already aired, has this wonderful blend of Caribbean culture and Latin American culture and Southern American culture (talking about fried chicken). All those combine to make for a very very interesting array of ingredients, restaurants, and the chefs that come there. It also has great seafood, not to mention the glorious citrus that's there. And all those things inform what you do - and they should.

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.

My mom was scared of the old Times Square so I was never allowed to go. Now I'm scared of the new Times Square, so I still never go.