Top Chefs Dish on Mom's Home Cooking

Author and "Top Chef" host Padma Lakshmi said as a child that she and her mother would scour New York City for Indian ingredients. She found "great mystery" with the goings on in the kitchen where the women would share recipes and gossip. Southern Indian food remains one of Padma's passions to this day. Source: Food and Wine

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Top Chefs Dish on Mom's Home Cooking

Rachael Ray, Emeril Lagasse and Padma Lakshmi are just some of the chefs who were influenced by their mothers' cooking during childhood. See what the top chefs and culinary elite learned from mom's home cooking and how that's shaped their palates today.

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