An Evening with Padma Lakshimi

Please note:

-- Tickets cannot be re-sold on re-seller platforms. Re-sold ticket will not be honored.

-- Tickets are non refundable and are not transferable.

-- All ticket holders should be ready to show ID at the event.

-- The name(s) you provide during registration will be on a will-call list at the event, where you will check-in and get your ticket to enter the theatre.

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Join us for an in-person and virtual* Live Talks Los Angeles event:

*Virtual event airs on November 25 at 6pm PT/9pm ET

discussing her book, "Padma's All American: Tales, Travels, and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond: A Cookbooks"

TICKETS:

• $60 General Admission ticket + signed book
• $85 Two General Admisison tickets + ONE signed book
• Additional signed books available for purchase at event

• The virtual version of this event airs on November 25, 2025, at 6pm PT/9PM ET and is available on video-on-demand for five days. Tickets include a sigend book
• Tickets for the virtual event can be purchased here (includes the signed book)
• ASL interpreter provided upon request.
• Free parking at the venue

Based on the award-winning Hulu series Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi..Padma Lakshmi is an Emmy-nominated food expert, television producer, and bestselling author. She is the creator of the critically-acclaimed Hulu series, Taste the Nation. She’s served as host and executive producer of Bravo’s Top Chef. She is co-founder of the Endometriosis Foundation of America and an ACLU Artist Ambassador for immigrants’ rights and women’s rights..“Padma pushes past the familiar borders of American cooking, telling the immigrant stories that season the nation’s table. It’s American food in its truest form. . . . borderless, fearless, and extraordinarily delicious.”—Yotam Ottolenghi.Padma Lakshmi’s newest book is a love letter to the people who create and evolve American cuisine every day—a road map to the foods that give America its vibrant, kaleidoscopic palate..When Lakshmi arrived in New York City in the 1970s, she witnessed firsthand the cuisines of the immigrant communities around her: uniquely their own and yet quintessentially American..Padma’s All American: Tales, Travels and Recipes from Taste the Nation and Beyond is the result of seven years of traveling and tasting, listening and observing. The book includes dozens of mouth-watering recipes from the immigrant and Indigenous communities she has visited, as well as many from her own family, showing us what really comprises American cuisine..This is a joyful book—a reflection of who we truly are as a nation, from one of our most essential culinarians.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Ann and Jerry Moss Theater--New Roads School, Herb Alpert Educational Village, Santa Monica, United States