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Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

What Are You Cooking Up This Fall? with Padma Lakshmi

Getting Curious with Jonathan Van Ness

Sony Music

Science, Self-improvement, Comedy, Education, Society & Culture

4.9 • 21.5K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2021

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Need a palate cleanser? Have we got an episode for you. Padma Lakshmi joins Jonathan to discuss the key to a great grilled cheese, the ingredient that makes her chicken stock sublime, her new children’s book Tomatoes For Neela, and so much more. Padma Lakshmi is the creator and host of Hulu’s Taste the Nation and host and executive producer of the Emmy-winning Bravo series Top Chef. She is the bestselling author of two cookbooks, the Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs, as well as her memoir Love, Loss, and What We Ate. You can follow Padma on Instagram and Twitter @padmalakshmi. Tomatoes For Neela is out now. Find out what today’s guest and former guests are up to by following us on Instagram and Twitter @CuriousWithJVN. Transcripts for each episode are available at JonathanVanNess.com. Check out Getting Curious merch at PodSwag.com. Listen to more music from Quiñ by heading over to TheQuinCat.com. Jonathan is on Instagram and Twitter @JVN and @Jonathan.Vanness on Facebook.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to Getting Curious, I'm Jonathan Vaness, and every week I sit down for a gorgeous

0:04.6

conversation with a brilliant expert to learn all about something that makes me curious.

0:10.1

On today's episode, I'm joined by Padma Lakshmi, where I ask her, what are you cooking

0:14.9

up this fall?

0:18.1

Welcome to Getting Curious, this is Jonathan Vaness, I'm so excited to welcome our guest.

0:22.1

She is a literal Emmy-nominated food expert, television host, producer and New York Times

0:27.4

best-selling author, but she's also someone who I'm lucky enough to get to call a friend.

0:32.4

Welcome to Getting Curious, Padma Lakshmi, how are you?

0:35.2

I'm good, Jonathan, how are you?

0:38.0

Good, people can't see which is their loss unless they follow social media so they might

0:42.5

get to see a little video of us, but this center part that you're serving us today.

0:47.2

I also was trying to do this thing where I don't compliment all of my guests, like physically

0:50.7

because I'm trying to do more of a journalist or something, but it's not going well.

0:53.2

I'm still a hairdresser at heart, and it just is what it is.

0:57.0

And how are you?

0:58.0

What's going on?

0:59.0

How's your summer been?

1:00.0

I just saw that you were in Paris.

1:01.0

I just got back from Paris last night.

1:04.6

My summer's okay.

1:05.6

It's going by really fast, and it's really busy, and I'm thankful for that, but I'm also

1:12.9

really overwhelmed, to be honest.

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