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Hey everyone, Dan here with another reheat for you.

And, you know, look, obviously, as part of my job, I get to eat a lot of good food.

It is one of the perks.

But it's very rare, actually, that a guest

brings me food in the studio. That has only happened a handful of times. At least Whitney showed up

with a bunch of dips. I'm having trouble remembering another one other than the one that you're

about to hear, which is my conversation from 2016 with Padma Lakshmi. We started chatting and and pretty soon I was eating tamarin rice from her fridge. And as you'll hear, that's not the only food that it turns out we both love. Padma, of course, you know, is a cookbook author, food writer, former top chef host. We talk about everything from her memories of her grandmother's kitchen to adjusting to life in the U.S. after moving to New York from India at age four. And a quick update on Padma, she left Top Chef back in 2023, and she's now

hosting a new reality cooking competition show called America's Culinary Cup. It's on CBS, new episodes

air Wednesday nights. And of course, as always, if there's a sporkful episode you want us to

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I've had to learn how to eat on television and not soil my garments.

This is Padma Lakshmi, cookbook author, writer, and host of the TV show Top Chef.

After 10 years hosting that show, she's learned how to eat on camera.

I think you just want to make sure that you open your mouth wide enough, so that you don't, you know you know i mean it's harder for me than it is

for for you say i mean you have a beard which provides its own obstacles but you know when you have

lipstick and stuff i try not to wear too bright of lipstick so that you know i'm always going like

this trying to wipe it off the wine glass or something. But I think it's just to take a small

bite and eat slowly so you can really absorb the experience because Top Chef is unlike

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