Tomatoes for Neela

Tomatoes for Neela
Padma Lakshmi
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Hardback
Not defined - 40pg
16 Nov 2021 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9780593202708
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Padma Lakshmi, bestselling author and host of Bravo' s Top Chef and Hulu' s Taste the Nation, and Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal team up in this celebration of food and family. Neela loves cooking with her amma and writing down the recipes in her notebook. It makes her feel closer to her paati who lives far away in India. On Saturdays, Neela and Amma go to the green market and today they are buying tomatoes to make Paati' s famous sauce. But first, Neela needs to learn about all the different kinds of tomatoes they can pick from. And as Neela and Amma cook together, they find a way for Paati to share in both the love and the flavors of the day. Bestselling author and host of Bravo' s Top Chef and Hulu' s Taste the Nation Padma Lakshmi takes young readers on an intergenerational journey full of delicious flavors and fun food facts that celebrates a family' s treasured recipes. And Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal brings this circle of women to life with vivid detail and warmth. Tomatoes for Neela lovingly affirms how we can connect to other cultures, as well as to our own, through food.
"The sweet, lushly illustrated tale succeeds in showing the importance of food as connection within one Indian American family. " -Publishers Weekly"Martinez-Neal' s warmly textured, beautifully detailed illustrations are the perfect celebration of intergenerational love. " -Kirkus Reviews
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, aswell as her memoir Love, Loss, and What We Ate. Lakshmi is also cofounder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America, an artist ambassador for the ACLU, and a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations. She lives in New York City with her daughter. Her favourite kind of tomato is a San Marzano.
Status: Indent title, imported to order
ISBN-13: 9780593202708
Published: 16 Nov 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
Publisher: Random House USA Inc
Format: Hardback
Pages: 40

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