About Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi

Padma Lakshmi is an actress, model, and the host of Bravo TV’s Top Chef. She’s also the author of two cookbooks, Easy Exotic, and her most recent title, Tangy Tart Hot & Sweet. @padmalakshmi

Three pieces of crispy fried chicken on grease-stained paper.

Crispy Fried Chicken

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This blissfully crunchy, irreverently easy, crazily unconventional coating is everything we never knew we wanted in fried chicken.

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A bowl of cardamom and cashew cookies with one broken cookie beside the bowl.

Cardamom and Cashew Cookies

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Magically delicate and nuanced cookies that satisfy the little kid cookie craving in an adult sorta way.

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Chili Butter

Chili Honey Butter

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Sweet, spicy, and just a little sassy. That’s what we think of this sensational synthesis of everyday ingredients. Slather it at will.

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