Top Chef host says he grew up licking "pickle spoons and cups" in Instagram videos.
She posted to Instagram on Thursday, the host of Top Chef, 51, shares his childhood joys at their best. "In Western or American homes, kids usually grow up wanting to lick the bowl clean after the dough or before the cake is baked," she told Instagram Reel. "But I always want to lick the bowl and spoon of cucumbers because they're my sweet-spicy, salty!"
In the video, he packs a lemon pickle. Then, as he licked the mixing spoon, he whispered, "perfect," referring to the dish he had just prepared.
"Did anyone else do that as a child?" he wrote in the video caption. "Admit it; I still like it! Give me all that salty and spicy food."
Then a cookbook author teased a new lemon pickle recipe. "What's your favorite dish with lemon cucumber (aka achar or orga)?" he asked his followers. "The lemon pickle recipe is coming soon!!."
Dressed in a towering red robe, Lakshmi acknowledged her casual demeanor.
"By the way, excuse my appearance; I just got out of the shower. Earlier this month, the TV personality won significant awards at the James Beard Media Awards and Critics Choice Real TV Awards, where he won multiple awards.
First, the original Hulu travel series, Taste the Nation: Holiday Edition, won the James Byrd Media Award for Visual Media news In honor of the win, Lakshmi shared an Instagram post about her career so far.
"I'm so excited! I can't believe I'm here. I've always felt like an outsider in my life. " I'm not Indian enough, I'm not American enough, but I've always had a deep love for food," she wrote. "I feel like people are like, 'Why are you here?' And I think all of us." sometimes feel that way.
