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.
Originally from Lima, Peru, she lives with her husband and three children in Arizona where she cooks with lots of Roma tomatoes..
Juana Martinez-Neal is the winner of the Pura Belpré Illustrator Award for La Princesa and the Pea by Susan Middleton Elya and the Caldecott Honor Award for Alma and How She Got Her Name , which she also wrote.
Her favorite kind of tomato is a San Marzano.
She lives in New York City with her daughter.
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 is the bestselling author of two cookbooks, the Encyclopedia of Spices and Herbs, as well as her memoir Love, Loss, and What We Ate .
About author(s): 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 .
Tomatoes for Neela lovingly affirms how we can connect to other cultures, as well as to our own, through food.
And Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Juana Martinez-Neal brings this circle of women to life with vivid detail and warmth.
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 as Neela and Amma cook together, they find a way for Paati to share in both the love and the flavors of the day.
But first, Neela needs to learn about all the different kinds of Tomatoes they can pick from.
On Saturdays, Neela and Amma go to the green market and today they are buying Tomatoes to make Paati\'s famous sauce.
It makes her feel closer to her paati who lives far away in India.
It is the foundation for all I have spent my life working on." - Padma Lakshmi Neela loves cooking with her amma and writing down the recipes in her notebook. "Some of my fondest memories from childhood are of cooking with the women in my family.
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
