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Easy Exotic: A Model's Low-Fat Recipes from Around the World Hardcover – January 1, 1999

by Padma Lakshmi (Author), Georgia Downard (Author), Elizabeth Watt (Photographer)
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A world-famous supermodel offers a collection of easy, delicious, and healthful recipes gathered in her exotic international travels, including dishes from Spain, Asia, and Morocco, accompanied by color photographs and an overview of Padma's life, along with her beauty tips. 15,000 first printing.
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Here are two celebrity cookbooks by celebrities, not celebrity chefs. Singer Labelle loves food and cooking; she even takes her pots and pans with her when she's on tour so that she can whip up a meal in her hotel room after a show. Here are recipes for what she likes best, many of them family favorites handed down from her grandmother, mother, and others: Pass-It-On Pot Roast, Aunt Verdelle's Savory Red Rice, Fierce Fried Corn, Baby Henry's Bread Pudding. Childhood memories, anecdotes about life on the road, and touching recollections about her family are interspersed throughout the book. LaBelle's memoir, Don't Block the Blessings (Riverhead, 1996), was a huge best seller, and her cookbook is sure to be popular. Lakshmi is a supermodel who was born in India, grew up in the United States, and travels frequently to exoticAand less-exoticAlocales for her job. Here she sets down about five dozen recipes for the food she likes to cook and eat, organized by country (or continent) of origin: Spain, France, Italy, India, Asia, and Morocco. Most are standards, and the text, while well written, would seem to be of little interest to anyone other than supermodel groupies. Not a necessary purchase.
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Hyperion Books; First Edition (January 1, 1999)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 128 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0786864591
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0786864591
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.2 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 0.5 x 9.5 inches
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Padma Lakshmi is an Emmy-nominated food expert, television producer, host and The New York Times best-selling author.

She is the creator of the critically acclaimed Hulu series Taste the Nation, nominated for a 2021 Gotham Award for Breakthrough Series, which has just been greenlit for a second season. Lakshmi serves as host and executive producer of Bravo’s two-time Emmy-winning series Top Chef, which has been nominated for 32 Emmys, including her two-time nomination for Outstanding Host for A Reality-Competition Program. Its new season will be premiering in spring 2021.

Lakshmi is co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America (EFA) and an American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) Artist Ambassador for immigrants' rights and women's rights. Lakshmi was also appointed a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).

She established herself as a food expert early in her career, hosting two successful cooking shows: Padma’s Passport, and Planet Food and writing the best-selling Easy Exotic, which won the “Best First Book” award at the Gourmand World Cookbook Awards. Lakshmi followed this with the publication of her second cookbook, Tangy, Tart, Hot & Sweet and her memoir The New York Times best-selling Love, Loss and What We Ate. She later published The Encyclopedia of Spices & Herbs. In August of 2021 she will publish her first children’s book Tomatoes for Neela.

Additionally, Lakshmi is a visiting scholar at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). She has received the 2018 Karma Award from Variety, as well as the 2016 NECO Ellis Island Medal of Honor.

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Jeanajoan
5.0 out of 5 stars There is only one model: Padma
Reviewed in the United States on August 31, 2021
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I don’t understand why models are mentioned in the plural in several reviews; all are photos of the author and Susanne Somers does the same thing with her self-illustrated cookbooks!
The recipes are good and not terribly complicated. If you want to lose weight, just don’t eat very much of these healthy offerings. I bought this because I enjoyed her memoir so much.
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KateG
2.0 out of 5 stars Disappointed
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This is a very thin volume. A bit of a disappointment.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
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I am looking forward to trying all the recipes. Looks fascinating!
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Jael
5.0 out of 5 stars Easy Exotic is Awesome
Reviewed in the United States on January 31, 2009
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I really enjoyed this cook book! The recipes are easy to follow and i loved learning more about Padma she is a wonderful cook and an inspiration me.
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Tammy
1.0 out of 5 stars NOT A GOOD RECIPE BOOK, ONLY NICE PICTURES
Reviewed in the United States on March 28, 2001
If you're buying this book for the pretty models, then your doing ok, but if you're buying this book for low fat, good tasting and easy to make recipes then FORGET IT, this is not the right book. This book claims to have good tasting easy to make recipes from all around the world-WRONG! The only thing this book has is pretty models that are half dressed. The recipes are not easy to make, they are quite complicated and take way to long to prepare. And after you're done, you'll notice that you just prepared a dish with as much fat or as many calories as any other regular dish. I was so disappointed after reading this book, I really regret wasting my money.
I would like to recommend other recipe books which I enjoyed reading and got good recipe ideas from, one is "The best recipe" This book has over 500 pages with 700 different recipes, from desserts to veggie plates, pasta, salads, stews to pizzas and soups. Alot of these recipes are low fat and low calorie dishes. Also, other good recipe books for those of us who really want to watch our weight, yet eat delicious foods are recipe books written by Dr. Shapiro. His recipe books specialize with weightloss recipes that are easy to make and very delicious. Dr. shapiros books are well written and easy to follow.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Great recipes...
Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2002
Another reviewer panned this book b/c she bought it simply to "know Padma better." This is a cookbook, not a biography. The recipes are delicious, low in cholesterol and low-fat. They are easy to make and the instructions are clear, so the book is accessible to new cooks but still interesting for those with more experience in the kitchen. I think this is a terrific book, the recipes I've used have all been delicious (especially the Spinach and Garbanzo Tapas). I highly recommend it.
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Angel
1.0 out of 5 stars Recipes are not easy to make or low-fat
Reviewed in the United States on April 2, 2001
After reading most of the other customer reviewss, I noticed that alot of people commented on the models more than they did on the actual recipes. Minus the models, the book isn't much good. The so-called easy exotic recipes are not easy to make. The recipes are somewhat complicated to follow, take a long time to make and require many different ingrediants. When you're all done, you can count colories and find out they aren't very low-fat afterall.
Even the Provencale Tomato Potato Stew is very time consuming. The final results are good tasting dishes, but they're not fat free. And the mojority of them are not done in 30 minutes the this book claims.
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Texdakota
4.0 out of 5 stars Recipes are good. Cover photo is great
Reviewed in Canada on September 4, 2015
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Recipes are good. Cover photo is great.
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