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'Top Chef' Fans: Padma Lakshmi Talk, Book-Signing Coming Up

Hosted by Bay Area women's leadership group, the Milpitas event features the TV host and author of "Love, Loss, and What We Ate."

Padma Lakshmi, Author, Love, Loss, and What We Ate: A Memoir

6:30-9 p.m., Wednesday, March 16, SanDisk, Building 2, 1051 SanDisk Dr., Milpitas, Calif.

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Join us as Padma Lakshmi, host of the Emmy Award-winning, top-rated Bravo series Top Chef, discusses her vivid new memoir of food and family, survival and triumph. “Love, Loss, and What We Ate” traces the arc of her unlikely path from an immigrant childhood to a complicated life in front of the camera.

Her book has been described as a tantalizing blend of Ruth Reichl’s “Tender at the Bone” and Nora Ephron’s “Heartburn.”

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Tickets range from $29-$49 and include a copy of the book, which Lakshmi will sign after her remarks.

Tickets:bit.ly/1Vh9TE9.

This event is open to the public and is sponsored by Watermark, the leading community of top women executives, entrepreneurs and emerging executives in the San Francisco Bay Area whose mission is to increase the representation of women in leadership positions.

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