Andrea and I took a stroll today to Westwood to the UCLA campus for the LA Times Festival of Books. I wanted to attend it last year, but unfortunately I had to work, at a book store, so I was excited to actually go this year. There were a lot of people there, lots of self publishers and well known authors. We wandered around some booths, browsed through some books, and met some people. Then we settled down at the culinary stage and listened to Top Chef's host, actress, model, and cook book author Padma Lakshmi.Padma was friendly and personable and had good stage presence. She did a little cooking demonstration and read some personal essays that are included in her latest cookbook, Tangy Tart Hot & Sweet. She read an essay that was about her stealing a neighbor's roses to give to her mom for mother's day. It was really cute and very well written (she was married to Salman Rushdie.) All in all it was a fun trip to the book festival and I can't wait to go next year and spend more time there.
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