Título: Love, Loss, and What We Ate
Autor: Padma Lakshmi
Sinopse: A vivid memoir of food and family, survival and triumph, Love, Loss, and What We Ate traces the arc of Padma Lakshmi’s unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera—a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s Tender at the Bone and Nora Ephron’s HeartburnLong before Padma Lakshmi ever stepped onto a television set, she learned that how we eat is an extension of how we love, how we comfort, how we forge a sense of home—and how we taste the world as we navigate our way through it. Shuttling between continents as a child, she lived a life of dislocation that would become habit as an adult, never quite at home in the world. And yet, through all her travels, her favorite food remained the simple rice she first ate sitting on the cool floor of her grandmother’s kitchen in South India.Poignant and surprising, Love, Loss, and What We Ate is Lakshmi’s extraordinary account of her journey from that humble kitchen, ruled by ferocious and unforgettable women, to the judges’ table of Top Chef and beyond. It chronicles the fierce devotion of the remarkable people who shaped her along the way, from her headstrong mother who flouted conservative Indian convention to make a life in New York, to her Brahmin grandfather—a brilliant engineer with an irrepressible sweet tooth—to the man seemingly wrong for her in every way who proved to be her truest ally. A memoir rich with sensual prose and punctuated with evocative recipes, it is alive with the scents, tastes, and textures of a life that spans complex geographies both internal and external.Love, Loss, and What We Ate is an intimate and unexpected story of food and family—both the ones we are born to and the ones we create—and their enduring legacies.
Contexto da obra
Quando a classificação é mais ampla, o contexto do livro costuma depender ainda mais de autoria, tema e edição. “Love, Loss, and What We Ate”, de Padma Lakshmi, publicado pela editora Harper Collins, em 2016 e com 336 páginas, integra a categoria Livros Variados. Por isso, autoria, edição e tema acabam tendo ainda mais peso na forma de apresentar o livro.
Editora: Harper Collins
Páginas: 336
Ano: 2016
Edição: Reprint
Linguagem: pt_BR
ISBN: 9780062202628
ISBN13: 9780062202628
Sobre a editora
Os livros da editora HARPER COLLINS apresentam uma variedade de narrativas que transitam entre o fantástico, o histórico e o realista, com frequente atenção a conflitos pessoais e sociais profundos. Muitas obras exploram dilemas éticos e culturais, como tensões raciais em planetas distantes ou dramas humanos ambientados em períodos de guerra, oferecendo um tom que mescla suspense, emoção e reflexão. O catálogo também inclui textos que abordam temas práticos e didáticos, como educação sexual inclusiva e guias de autoconhecimento, o que indica um interesse por leitores que buscam tanto entretenimento quanto conhecimento. A linguagem varia entre o acessível e o elaborado, com ritmo que pode ser tanto intenso e tenso quanto contemplativo e informativo, dependendo do enfoque da obra.
