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.
"Some of my
fondest memories from childhood are of cooking with the women in my
family. 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. It makes
her feel closer to her paati who lives far away in India. On
Saturdays, Neela and Amma go to the green market and today they are
buying tomatoes to make Paati's famous sauce. But first, Neela needs
to learn about all the different kinds of tomatoes they can pick
from. 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.
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 Caldecott Honor-winning illustrator Juana
Martinez-Neal brings this circle of women to life with vivid detail
and warmth. Tomatoes for Neela lovingly affirms how we can
connect to other cultures, as well as to our own, through food.